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A note to parents who read these stories (perhaps with your children): Kids today face an amazing collection of pressures and challenges. They are bombarded with vast amounts of information, are presented with countless choices, and are closely surrounded by a society that, in many respects, seems to be falling apart at the seams. However, far too much is made, in my opinion, of the particular challenges young people face in different times. Human experience might come in different packages, yet there is an underlying continuity. The challenges my father experienced growing up in the forties and fifties are somehow strangely familiar to that of my own growing up in the eighties and nineties. I know this, in part, because I have read and enthusiastically enjoyed these aBoyhood Chroniclesa. In them I think that you too can re-experience with your young son or daughter some of the challenges that, in accordance with how we respond to them, define the quality of people we become. A note for kids who read theses stories: It might be hard for you to imagine a time when kids your age were not always instantly connected to friends and random videos (texting, YouTube, etc.). However, let me suggest to you that it is a time worth remembering. Reading a book slows things down, so uncomfortably slow for our day when we expect everything afast and furiousa. Yet in this slowing comes a way of understanding life that we would miss had we not put down our IPODas and turned off our TVas. Unplug from the endless stale stories of celebrities and plug into real life. Thatas what I felt as I read these aBoyhoodChroniclesa. I trust that you will feel the same too. Enjoy Kirt Lewis (Jimas youngest son) Assoc. Pastor, American River Community Church, Carmichael, CA