This Week · Liberty · July 4
For littler ones: Would you rather be safe, or free to do what you think is right?
This week, with the Fourth of July just around the corner, we're wondering about liberty — and one question underneath it: what's the difference between being free and being safe? They aren't always the same thing, and sometimes they pull in different directions. It's a good one to turn over together on the drive or at the dinner table, with no right answer waiting at the end.
This week's stories
American
A Boston silversmith crosses a dark river to warn a sleeping countryside that soldiers are marching. He didn't ride alone, and didn't even reach Concord — the warning belonged to Dawes, Prescott, and every neighbor who passed it on. A whole town choosing to wake up rather than stay quiet and safe.
American
On a freezing December night, more than a hundred working Bostonians — shoemakers, apprentices, a blacksmith — board three ships and tip 342 chests of British tea into the harbor because they're being taxed by a government that won't give them a voice. They harm no one and steal nothing, but it's real destruction, done on purpose, and it puts their safety on the line for that voice.
Talk about it
Listen together in the app — short audio stories for kids 4–10, at bedtime, on the drive, in the drop-off line.
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