I'LL NEVER GROW UP

Robbie, my nine-year-old grandson, recently asked his mother about puberty. She explained that it occurs when children's bodies begin to change. "Boys," she said, "grow taller and develop muscles. Their voices deepen, and they start to grow hair, like facial hair." She paused. "Do you understand?"

"Yes," he replied. "I just hope it happens on a Saturday, when I'm not in school."

Michael Stephenson



pg. 104, Reader's Digest April 2010