What do you say to your 11-year-old son who wants fireworks and you don’t? “The whole class can do it, mom!”

Her children with firecrackers through the neighborhood? Never, thought reporter Linda Akkermans. But now she has a son who beams when he just thinks about firecrackers. What now? She does know one thing: it’s easy for them to chat, all those people without pre-pubescent sons who say that their child will never get fireworks.

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