Suicide

Hearing the Cry for Compassion

 – by Walt Mueller ©1999, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding Editors Note: This article was written two-weeks before the shootings in Littleton, Colorado. Keep those events and the role played in Littleton by those labeled as “misfits” in mind as…
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It’s Time to Give Them Our Time

– by Walt Mueller ©1998, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding My daily habit of scanning the obituary page of our local paper continues to confirm the sad and frightening fact that hopelessness and its most extreme expression are far too common…
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I Love You Just The Way You Are

– By Walt Mueller ©2003, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding   I experienced pains of “anticipatory agony” the night before my seventh grade gym class assembled on the cinder quarter-mile track for the annual mile run for time. I remember praying…
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See The Signs

 – by Walt Mueller©2005, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding Even though it’s been two years since I saw it happen, its impact on me is still strong. I was sitting in the stands at a Good Charlotte concert with a raucous…
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