Be Smart. Be Safe. Keep Your Head On.
I‘ve uttered these three little sentences countless times. Mostly to teenagers. Or younger work colleagues on Fridays at five o’clock. Occasionally as fair warning to a wayward comrade. Often to myself.
It’s an amazingly simple request from a parent to child as they run out the door and into a car full of other equally clueless classmates. Of course they are smart. Ask them. Be safe I say to eye-rolling. Keep your head on is met with: Where else would I put it?
You really want to know?
But when you get the call at midnight or hear about the party the next day you wonder…did you hear me? I know you did. But did you listen?
Then I’m reminded that giving advice, even loving, caring, all-knowing, all-seeing parental advice, drifts off almost as soon as it’s said.
“Wise men don’t need it and fools don’t heed it,” goes a paraphrased quote from Benjamin Franklin.
Be Smart. Be Safe. Keep Your Head On.
It’s going to be printed on a t-shirt. Or tattooed to someone’s forehead. Do you hear me?
Original graphic and quote: Stephanie DelTorchio
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