I agree with most everything. Also, especially spending most of my life on the west coast, I understand fully how the "bad" person is the one who manifests a lack of acceptance of what almost just yesterday would have been considered the bizarre or untoward. I will say, however, that as I moved out into the adult world I thought more tha…
I agree with most everything. Also, especially spending most of my life on the west coast, I understand fully how the "bad" person is the one who manifests a lack of acceptance of what almost just yesterday would have been considered the bizarre or untoward. I will say, however, that as I moved out into the adult world I thought more than several times that perhaps my parents had not prepared me that well for the real world, not the way we wish it to be. In fact, in that respect and others I also have looked at my parents as childlike in certain respects. That said, the child-as-friend thing does not work well and we see a societal majority peopled now by those never really parented.
Yes, it's certainly true that we have a problem on both ends: Childhood innocence is not protected when it should be, and adolescents are not prepared for the world that they have to enter. Remember that we are called to be child-like, not childish. Innocent, not juvenile.
I agree with most everything. Also, especially spending most of my life on the west coast, I understand fully how the "bad" person is the one who manifests a lack of acceptance of what almost just yesterday would have been considered the bizarre or untoward. I will say, however, that as I moved out into the adult world I thought more than several times that perhaps my parents had not prepared me that well for the real world, not the way we wish it to be. In fact, in that respect and others I also have looked at my parents as childlike in certain respects. That said, the child-as-friend thing does not work well and we see a societal majority peopled now by those never really parented.
Yes, it's certainly true that we have a problem on both ends: Childhood innocence is not protected when it should be, and adolescents are not prepared for the world that they have to enter. Remember that we are called to be child-like, not childish. Innocent, not juvenile.