Reflection

There’s a beautiful children’s book called ‘You’ve Got Dragons’ by Kathryn Cave, and it’s one of those entertaining and instructive children’s books that helps very young children to identify their anger, label it, and then start actually managing it in healthy ways, bit by bit, day by day.

And it’s also one of those children’s books that can help the adult who is reading it aloud, too.

The dragons of our world do need to be vanquished, the ones outside of us like injustice, cruelty, and hate. And too, there are those inner dragons who can take us over and make us see red… encouraging us to do and say things we later regret. We’ve all got them, dragons. The metaphor is real. But that is not the end of the story. The end of the story comes when we manage to beat them. This time, at least.