My neighbor's grandkids came over for July 4th weekend and spent several, very annoying hours running up and down the driveway, screaming about whatever the hell toddlers like. As I lay in bed at seven in the morning, although I was very upset at the situation, I couldn't hate the children for waking me up because being loud and obnoxious in their home is their job. Kids will be kids.

That last thought reminded me of something I had read years ago about a family of Jews living in Nazi Germany. They had fled to the fields and hid under some hay stacks, but eventually the children in the family got bored and started playing in the fields because kids will be kids. Someone spotted them, but thankfully it was a neighbor, who took them in and hid them in his barn for the rest of the war.

But what if it weren't a sympathetic friend who saw them? What if it were a bunch of Nazis? A whole family would've been gassed because a bunch of kids couldn't remain still and not play. Again, it's in children's nature to move around, not understand the situation, and be rambunctious. But that can get you killed. I've heard of mothers in those years smothering their babies because the cries could alert soldiers, but not an older child. Could you murder your five-year-old to save yourself and everyone else in that situation? It's a crazy thought, and it's even crazier that this isn't a hypothetical question but an actual situation people had to deal with.