Reducing Childhood Suffering
My son, Randy Ryan Agno endured a difficult childhood while developing the resilience to survive and prosper.
Randy's childhood wasn't filled with Mommy and Me classes, Gymboree, Little League, ballet, drama club, summer camp, traveling soccer teams, piano lessons, science competitions, SAT prep classes and college visits. In his childhood, he learned quickly how to protect himself...since there were no boomer "helicopter parents" hovering over him so long that their offspring never got a chance to grow up.
Yet, as a successful adult, he felt uneasy because he knew that many other children were not able to follow a similar path. Then one morning he had an epiphany in his parked vehicle on the side of a California freeway. That event is changing his life dramatically.
Painful childhood experiences can either weaken or strengthen a person. Randy's early life struggles have made him strong, perceptive and emotionally intelligent enough to publicly tell his story so that other suffering children might also develop the confidence and faith necessary to survive and prosper as adults.
Every childcare worker and teacher should read Randy's story to better understand what some young people may be enduring silently and painfully at the place they call home. Only through gaining such awareness can we take the appropriate action to save a child.
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