We are guilty of many errors,

but our worst crime is abandoning the children.

Many of the things we need can wait.

The child cannot.

Right now is the time,

bones are being formed,

blood is being made,

senses are being developed.

 

To the child we cannot answer “Tomorrow.”

 

The child’s name is “Today.”

 

                                                                                                   Gabriela Mistral

                                                                                       ( Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet )