Caring for the youngin's
Domestic abuse is not uncommon, but to hear the story this week of Demond Reed is pretty heartbreaking. The four year old was beat to death in a duplex about five or six blocks from our home after soiling his pants. As I rode the 5 bus home yesterday afternoon, a man next to me was recounting on his phone the various "whoopins" he had as a kid, which involved belts and hoses. It just reconfirms to me how important it is to focus on youth in our neighborhood. We're not the family with kids over every night, but it's something we need to be involved with, even more as Micah enters kindergarten around here next year and gets neighborhood friends.