I take extra time with children at this point in my life. It wasn't always this way. I recall a time when I was rather short with children and this memory has caused me personal pain over the years.

Nowadays it is my child relatives that are short with me. Particularly the little boy child relatives. I suppose turn about is fair play.  

When I was a younger man teaching college I had a number of nieces and nephews who congregated at my mother's home. She also kept a number of foster children as was the kind nature of both my parents.

I tried to make it a point to get a good supply of reading materials for them. I would get encyclopedias and other informative tomes which I set out at my mother's home.

To this I added a custom computer built by my own hands and an inkjet printer. Though by today's standards it was pretty weak, at the time it was a state of the art machine equipped with a 2400 baud modem and all the maintenance and enhancements I could supply.

I feel that this enabled me to contribute to their upbringing in my own humble way and I feel that these books and computer programs added to the edification of my young relatives as a function of spurring interest where one may have been diminished otherwise.

International Children's Book Day is celebrated on April 2, the birthday of Hans Christian Andersen a famous children's author of whom I have read extensively. The observance was founded in 1967 and is sponsored by the International Board on Books for Young People which is an international non-profit.

See Also:

International Children's Book Day 2020
International Children's Book Day 2018
ICBD (International Children's Book Day)
 

Yeah, in honor of the delusional International Transgender Day of Visibility I was going to poke fun at a bunch of misguided transexual human beings today — but opted for something meaningful instead.

Today is World Backup Day and it is infinitely more important than some woman thinking she's a man or some man thinking he's a woman.

Wasn't that much more interesting that writing about some transexual idiot like Dr Richard "Rachel" Levine the genetic man who thinks he is a fugly woman?

Just because you think you are something does not make it so. Backing up your data is a real time protection in this world full of poor decisions like most of those by the Biden administration.

Around 1992 — back in my oldie but goodie VHS tape days — I saw a rather disturbing movie called Radio Flyer.

It starred Lorraine Bracco, John Heard, Adam Baldwin, Elijah Wood, and Joseph Mazzello and was about the reminiscing of a father regarding his own childhood.

He and his sibling relocated to a new town with their cannine after the remarriage of their mother to a rather brutal stepfather who subjects the younger brother to physical abuse.

There is an element of fantasy involving the older brother who converts their toy wagon called Radio Flyer into a plane to fly the abused child to safety.

When I was a kid I had a little red wagon. I think it's a right of passage. I had it long enough for the paint to fade and accumulate various dings along the way. I would go hither thither and yon from time to time pulling my youngest brother around the block in it which he seemed to enjoy immensely.

"I'm going to fix your little red wagon" was something I sometimes heard in warning regarding the various trangressions children invariably make and I don't recall any serious consequences of that somewhat milder threat I've known over the years.

The last Wednesday in March is Little Red Wagon Day.

It honors the little red wagon of childhood legend and lore.

That "fixing" of your little red wagon was an admonition from my early childhood and nowadays celebrates those wheels upon which children everywhere likely have taken off on adventures.

Little red wagons are the hallmark of burgeoning freedom and adventure as the result of wheels acquired in childhood.

It is an element of my childhood that made it all special.