founder’s letter
SEPTEMBER 2019 / DONNA MOFFLY
“Kids just have a way with words, but sometimes actions do speak louder.”
t’s September, the month we celebrate our teens, of all people. Yup, teens can be pains, but many are quite remarkable. Wait ’til you read about them in “Teens to Watch.” In any case, they all start out as small fry who say and do “the darndest things.” Art Linkletter built a whole TV show around them that ran for years. People couldn’t resist tuning in to see what those fertile little brains came up with. Here are some examples from our own backyard. Janie Galbreath and her seven-year-old daughter were going through a pile of clothes that she and her sister had outgrown. “Oh, Elizabeth, what are we going to do with all these clothes?” Janie moaned. “Let’s give them to that nice old man,” the little girl suggested. “Who?” said Janie, wondering what elderly gent they knew who might have any use for smocked dresses, size six. “You know, Mom,” answered her daughter. “Good Old Will!” Lisa Weicker recalls the day her threeyear-old granddaughter Eliza Ix went backto-school shopping for shoes with her mother. Eliza wasn’t very impressed with the options her mother selected; and when a salesman greenwichmag.com
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came over to ask if they needed help, Eliza looked up at him and said: “Excuse me, but do you have any glass slippers?” Here’s a little Miss who knows what she wants. Thinking about her ninety-one-year-old grandfather, Jen Danzi’s daughter Jones said: “Pop-Pop is never going to die.” “Well, everybody dies someday,” Jen told the fouryear-old. “Nope, not Pop-Pop,” the little girl insisted. “Why not?” Jen asked her. To which Jones replied: “Because he’s so old he would’ve died already.” When our editor Ali Nichols Gray was pregnant with her second child, threeyear-old son, Henry, put on his lantern headset, came over to the couch where she was resting and beamed the light on her belly button so he could see the baby. Later, when his father brought him to Greenwich Hospital to meet his little sister, Charlotte, for the first time, Henry asked: “Can I pet her?” And thinking of pets: Cinnie Coulson was driving her nine-year-old grandchildren, twins Maud and Callum Coulson, back into New York after a sleepover at her home in Riverside. Callum asked his grandmother what would happen to her dog, Daisy, when
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