"Highlights" magazine receives approximately 75,000 letters and contributions each year from young readers. Common concerns children write about include getting along with family members and friends, problems at school, and social and personal problems. Only a tiny percentage write of grave problems such as abuse, suicide, or drugs. Frequently letters concern teasing and other unkind behaviors by friends and classmates, with teasing by classmates being the largest school-related concern. Other school-related concerns involve problems understanding schoolwork or keeping up with the class, classmates who talk in class and distract others from their work, disruptive class members who cause the entire class to lose privileges, and --rarely--difficulties getting along with the teacher or complaints about teacher behavior. Each letter received is answered, and the "Highlights" staff relies very much on parents, teachers, and other adults to be sensitive and responsive listeners to children who may contact them. Children writing about personal and social concerns evidently know their shortcomings but find it difficult to change long-established behaviors and do think and care about "adult" issues, even though research indicates that parents do not think of their children as having such concerns. (RH)