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SHOULD YOU TAKE YOUR CHILD SOMEPLACE DANGEROUS?
- 7. My wife Katharine
and I have gone on
five church mission
trips with our
daughters:
three times to
Mexico and twice to
Guatemala.
- 8. Our first trip was a
short hop across
the border to
Juarez for two
days. Twenty-one
children, twenty
parents and one
grandparent built
two houses.
- 9. The homes had
three rooms, each
12 feet by 12 feet.
Our younger
daughter had just
turned seven.
- 10. I don’t know which was scarier:
Watching my 7 year-old climb up
on the roof with a hammer
or…
- 11. Or watching her run around,
playing with barefoot children
who lived in packing crates
in the desert.
- 12. Nine years later, when she was a
senior in high school, and we
chaperoned 60 American high
school students on a mission trip
to Mexicali.
- 15. They are less worried about their
problems—which somehow
seem smaller.
- 17. How can trips that immerse our
children into a world with less safety
and comfort actually protect them?
- 22. Is playing on an unpaved
Mexicali road
safer than
the keys to your car on a
Saturday night?