"For some reason or other, we were all spirited kids, but we didn't have real fights," Mr. Yudain recalled in an interview with Roll Call in 2005.
What makes it remarkable is the conjunction of the times (1969-70), an inspiring educator and some spirited kids from upstate New York.
Especially if you have what we euphemistically call a "spirited child". Kids who are neurotypical but who are just MORE — more intense, more perceptive, more persistent, more energetic.
Some parents object to the way the books celebrate a disrespectful, mean-spirited kid.
When he is talking, his attention rapidly snaps from one topic to another, but he has learned to take care of business on the golf course by channeling the free-spirited kid who grew up loving golf in the Florida Panhandle.
As with the original Dennis the Menace, one man's rascal is another man's free-spirited kid.
They chuck Mike Shanahan, a Super Bowl coach twice over, and bring in a nasty, mean-spirited kid named Josh McDaniels, who manages to alienate his All-Pro quarterback so quickly that the pouty QB decamps to the Chicago Bears.
In the good old days it was defiant, free-spirited kids who liberated the uptight grown-ups with sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.
"Utah is so conservative, which sucks for free-spirited kids.
As Mr. Lightsey, 41, prepared for his niece's funeral, scheduled for Friday, he recalled that his niece was "a free-spirited, outgoing kid" who was fond of photography, rhythm and blues, music videos and movies.
