2. A Universal Concepts Project by Mrs. Kolodney

3.  Shapes and Sizes  Support Growing up  “Your Kids are such good kids because they feel safe.”  Loved no matter what

4.  Great with Grandma and Grandpa  Felt SAFE with Mom and Dad  What happens to kids who don’t feel safe?  The safety of my Family

5.  Stanza #1 (of 4) I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils, Beside the lake, beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze Without my family I am alone, wandering “lonely as a cloud.” The members of my family make me feel one with myself and nature.

6.  Stanza #2 Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. A safe family is as constant as the stars that shine in the heavens.

7.  Stanza #3 The waves beside them danced, but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay In such a jocund company: I gazed and gazed-but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought  Stanza #4 For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.

8. High up on the platform I look down at the world below Contemplating this treacherous leap My fear, I hope, does not show. I hold on to the lifeline, Secure in my hand, Peering at the tiny faces, Listening to the cacophonous band. The bitter world below me gears up to steal my heart Gossip, Prejudice, Pain. My search for ME is ready to start. My courage mustered, My hand on the bar, I leap into the air— Infinity is far My hand slips. I plummet. Far below-- The safety net envelops me. Family

9. High up on the platform I look down at the world below Contemplating this treacherous leap My fear, I hope, does not show. I hold on to the lifeline, Secure in my hand, Peering at the tiny faces, Listening to the cacophonous band. facing the world without my family My family is the lifeline.

10. The bitter world below me Gears up to steal my heart. Gossip, Prejudice, Pain. My search for ME is ready to start. My courage mustered, My hand on the bar, I leap into the air— Infinity is far Who am I without my family? I know I can make it in the world.

11. My hand slips. I plummet. The safety net envelops me Family But if I mess up, my family is there to catch me.

12. Dec. 27, 1986 Dec. 27, 2011 The End Me, with my brothers My Family