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A Letter to My Son

This is my grandson (I know. He's pretty dang cute, right?) His daddy, my son, posted a picture of him on Instagram with a caption stating that he could not love this baby any more. What he doesn't know, what he can't possibly know right now, is that he will... Just wait, my dearest son, just wait. When his kindergarten teacher mistakes his inability to sit still for rebelliousness. When she pulls you aside on a daily basis to tell you all that he's done wrong that day. When she gives him eleven demerits in just three hours of school. When she keeps him in from recess day after day, although recess is what he needs most in his structured day. When he's in trouble so often that you find him lying on his bed sobbing and wondering why God made him, and he says, "I should just kill myself" - in kindergarten. And your heart breaks. When his best friend finds a new best friend. And your heart breaks. When you walk by his 5th grade classr