**Who put chocolate fingers everywhere..
**Who like to be tickled...
**Who stomp in puddles and ruin their new pants...
**Who erase holes in their math books...
** Who can never find their shoes.
We have the responsibility of teaching those children:
**Who stare at photographers from behind barbed wire fences...
**Who don't have new sneakers...
**Who never count "potatoes"...
**Who are born in places we wouldn't be caught dead...
**Who never go to the circus...
**Who live in an X rated world.
We had the responsibility of teaching those children :
**Who bring us sticky kisses and fistfuls of dandelions...
**Who sleep with the dog and bury dead goldfish...
**Who hug us in a hurry and forget their lunch money...
**Who sing off- key...
**Who squeeze toothpaste all over the sink...
**Who slurp their soup.
We have the responsibility of eaching those children:
**Who never get dessert...
**Who have no safe blanket to drag behind them...
**Who watch their parents watch them die...
**Who can't find any bread to steal...
**Who don't have any rooms to clean up...
**Whose pictures aren't on anybody's dresser...
**Whose monsters are real.
We have the responsibility of teaching those children:
**Who spend all their allowance before Tuesday...
**Who like ghost stories...
**Who shove dirty clothes under the bed...
**Who never rinse out the tub...
**Who gets visits from the tooth fairy...
**Who don't like to be kissed in front of the carpool...
**Who squirm in church and scream in the phone...
***Whose tears we sometimes laugh at----and whose smiles can make us cry.
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