I Don't Care If You Correct My Kids

Part of parents stepping back is the community stepping forward.

The author at age four

In one of my earliest memories, I am running around an empty bocce court at the Italian Fraternal Hall Festival. I liked kicking up the dust and seeing it settle under the multicolored carnival lights (this was before iPads, I don’t know). As it got later, the adults were starting to shuffle outside and, fortified by a few beverage…