A Lot to Accept

It's a lot to accept, that's for sure. The changes us Baby Boomers have had to endure. We're teaching our kids that its more important what they wear than whether or not they care. And what is worse is that it is not active teaching it is passive. We are letting our consuming habits and media and the attempt to consummate the dreams of our own childhoods - never fully realized - raise our kids. It's a simple recipe, let me see, "Oh, yeah here it is!" Get home from hospital, and be fawned by family and friends.

Then it starts. The artificially created get togethers, the play dates, the sign-up and drive to's (that don't end until they're driven off to college). And, "time keeps on slip'in into the future" - or something like that. Very few family's that I see on a daily basis, as a teacher, are doing anything to slow - it - down; to digest daily life, to embrace daily life...