Posts Tagged ‘parents’
Springsteen on parents (and perhaps a path to my salvation)
“We honor our parents by carrying their best forward and laying the rest down. By fighting and taming the demons that laid them low and now reside in us. It’s all we can do, if we’re lucky. ” — Bruce Springsteen I have walked for a long time in the shadow of parents whose decisions…
Read MoreA goal for 2016: An agreement that these parents are awful, disgusting, rotten people
Can we all agree that parents who actively oppose their child’s interracial, inter-religious, or same sex marriage are awful people? They are still mothers and father, perhaps still worthy of love and respect, and possibly possessing many admirable and endearing qualities, but they are also awful, disgusting, rotten people. We can all agree to this.…
Read MoreMillennials are living at home in greater numbers than ever before. Are they just overly indulged wimps?
You may have heard that millennials are living at home more than young people in previous generations. In 2014, the number of young women living with their parents eclipsed their counterparts in 1940, and last year 43% of young men were living at home, which is the highest rate since 1940. I’m trying to maintain…
Read MoreFathers don’t get to teach their children to swim anymore.
When I was a boy, my father taught me how to swim. I would cling to the edge of my grandfather’s pool, my father would push me off the edge and toward the center of the pool, and I would flail my way back to the edge. He would repeat this process again and again…
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