As media we are so used to focusing on the short-term, the news story, that sometimes longer-term processes get missed. Which is a pity, because often those longer processes are the good news stories. It’s important to take a moment to celebrate how things are getting better. BDlive this week reported that children from homes which receive social grants are a full centimetre taller, and do better in school, than children from homes that don’t. This completely changes the arguments around social grants, and their long-term impacts. By STEPHEN GROOTES.