theKid recently expressed some frustration with the foolishness of grown folks \u2026 and youth sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yeh, the kids think the parents are dumb too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And kids always bear the burden of a parent\u2019s mistakes. Ergo, to wit: my parents split before I hit kindergarten, totally destroyed the family, and the scars from that destruction have faded but are very much still there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Same for Half, who was still a baby youngling when Half\u2019s parents decided to end things. There was some additional baggage there too; Half has spent a lifetime working out that damage, and trying not to break theKid during the learning process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Might be one reason for theKid being so maudlin. But \u2026 we\u2019re working on it. {Proverbs 22:6<\/em>}<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maybe try therapy, maybe just rub some dirt on it. Or Robitussin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyhoo, theKid sees a lot of grown folks\u2019 foolishness and remains perplexed \u2026 and methinks no can blame. Most of the time I don\u2019t understand other people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of the parents (not ours \/ ours are GREAT) got into \u2026 not fisticuffs, but verbal battling, sprays of spit in the heat of prattle. Refs had to stop the game until folks calmed down. Overall unpleasant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The debt to decorum remains unpaid, apparently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The kids are watching. And learning. Better to be a good example than to be right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After the p(l)andemic, it really does seem that people have lost a bit of civility. I think it stems from fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lives so thoroughly upended with no warning and no right to refuse. The Damoclesian blade hanging over us all. What\u2019s the Hobbes\u2019 quote re life? Well, with good insurance, we can drag it out almost interminably. And then there\u2019s cryogenics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A woman in Minnesota was frozen solid for six hours then \u2026 defrosted, brought back to life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Same for a kid in Pennsylvania \u2026 frozen for 12 hours, brought back gradually. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I guess Walt Disney might be on to something.\u00a0 But where will they find a body?\u00a0 theKid recently expressed some frustration with the foolishness of grown folks \u2026 and youth sports. Yeh, the kids think the parents are dumb too. And kids always bear the burden of a parent\u2019s mistakes. Ergo, to wit: my parents split before I hit kindergarten, totally destroyed the family, and the scars from that destruction have … <\/p>\n
Wait\u2014 that\u2019s not right. One could refuse, but at the cost of one\u2019s livelihood. There is that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNasty, brutish, and short\u201d? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Enter AI [shudders<\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"