Growing Up by Showing Up | Taimur Naeem | TEDxYouth@AISR

[applause] >> This feels rather familiar. That dashing fourth grade boy over there, my younger self, was given the marvelous opportunity to speak at an official TEDx event. His topic, summer he spent without his mother.That summer, while my mom was abroad studying and my dad was working long hours, it was just me and my seven-year-old brother home alone every single day for a month. At first, it was strange, quiet, even lonely. But slowly, I learned something something fundamental.Something that would stick ...