Longfellow Quote

As I often do between bites of oatmeal, I went through a stack of puzzles this morning. Wednesday's cryptoquote from Newsday touched me. The phrase I cracked first was "the heart" and when I saw the entire quote I considered that this is a perpetual struggle of parenting. Think before we speak, especially when we're stressed.

"A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow