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As I read this post I was flashing back to my own childhood. Many, and I do mean many, of the exact same things that I was reading that you all had done...so had I. A magical time to be sure. So...the question I pose is this. Our kids...is it their fault, or ours that they will not have these memories to look fondly back upon? Do we look back on our own childhoods and subconciously, or otherwise, try to instinctively protect them from the "dangers" that we did not see for ourselves at the time?
Kids do not seek out their own entertainment any more. They expect to be entertained, and for their entertainment to be provided for them. I have a 15 year old daughter, that the minute I hit the door tonight is having her ass uprooted from the sofa and tossed outside to go find something, anything to do besides sit and rot in front of the TV. She will cry, she will whine, I will be a tyranical ogre. I do not care. I do not want her to be relating a childhood memory, have to stop and say "Oh wait, that was Dawson's Creek."
"Pussification" indeed. I love that word. And so appropriate.
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"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony
"Hedonism with rules isn't hedonism at all, it's the Republican party." - JumpinJesus
It is indisputable that true beauty lies within...but a nice rack sure doesn't hurt.
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