The sixth-grade basketball game was well underway Parents and grandparents were cheering on their players while younger brothers and sisters of the boys on the teams entertained themselves out in the school hallway Suddenly sirens blared and lights flashed in the gym A fire alarm had been tripped Soon the siblings came streaming back into the gym in panic looking for their parents There was no fire the alarm had accidentally been activated But as I watched I was struck by the way the children mdash sensing a crisis mdash unashamedly ran to embrace their parents What a picture of [... more]