This Simple Conversation Before The Holidays Could Save Your Child’s Life
by KAREN WEESE
The Christmas lights twinkled as 12-year-old Brian Crowell crunched down the steps of his family’s two-story gray colonial in Saugus, Massachusetts, and headed around the corner in the snow to his best friend’s house. It was late afternoon, still time for few games of Nintendo before dinner.
It had been a good day—his sister had taken him to the mall to do his Christmas shopping, where he’d scored a box of chocolate-covered cherries that his dad was going to love—and his whole extended family was coming over that night for their big annual Christmas Eve dinner. The kitchen was bursting with goodies his mom had been up all night baking, he’d remembered to do his chores (“The dishwasher’s already runnin’, Ma!” he reported proudly when he called her at work), and the brightly wrapped gifts under the tree brimmed with promise. A skateboard? A bike ramp? Could be anything.
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