tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14383626.post3364369538091358359..comments2024-01-14T23:07:20.775-06:00Comments on dcat: The Good Old Daysdcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09921385244556780254noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14383626.post-45869513801160483342010-12-28T13:56:19.213-06:002010-12-28T13:56:19.213-06:00T --
I think we can romanticize the virtue of aut...T --<br /> I think we can romanticize the virtue of autonomy as well. It would be nice to be able to split the difference of childhood independence of necessity and the helicoptering that goes to the other extreme today.<br /><br />dcatdcathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09921385244556780254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14383626.post-57388856556431351912010-12-23T13:41:32.643-06:002010-12-23T13:41:32.643-06:00Wonderful story about your childhood...I have neve...Wonderful story about your childhood...I have never put much thought into how I was raised until I had Ada and oh...how all the I know agonize over what school she will attend, what activities I will allow her to get involved with in the future, and this girl is only 5 months, going on 6 months old. <br />I must admit or rather my mom would hate to admit, but I was a latch-key child, sometime left to my own devices, which at times turned out to be a wonderful experience for me, but for my mom, who raised me as a single mother and now me raising my girl as a single mother it was probably for my mom something that she would have liked to have been different. <br />I would like my circumstances to be different, but being a college instructor I feel like my schedule and especially holiday schedule leaves me enough time to spend quality time with Ada! Cheers to teaching!!!<br />TramaineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14383626.post-12784162625566825532010-12-22T16:07:06.387-06:002010-12-22T16:07:06.387-06:00EA --
I do see enormous advantages to living in...EA --<br /> <br /> I do see enormous advantages to living in a place like the one you do, especially because of the proximity of schools and such. But I imagine you see even more of the helicopter parenting than I do, the sort of thing it's clear that you and I never experienced. I am sure some good comes from that too. I'm just glad I was sent outside and didn't have much interest in going back in until threatened with physical harm if I didn't.<br /> And when I did want to stay inside it was because I wanted to read, which seems like a pretty fair tradeoff.<br /><br />Ho Ho Ho --<br />dcatdcathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09921385244556780254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14383626.post-1987506801441224432010-12-21T12:29:31.706-06:002010-12-21T12:29:31.706-06:00I think the problem with being middle class, and e...I think the problem with being middle class, and even worse with being professional intellectuals, is that we think too much. My parents would lock us out of the house in the late morning and not let us back in until the end of the day when they were leaving for work. They slept during the day because they both had night jobs-the next closest house was a few miles away. I used to play entire baseball games by myself. <br /><br />I always imagined living in a neighborhood where there were kids my age to play with-kinda of where we live now. My kids love it because they have many neighborhood kids to play with all the time. They will not have the same childhood experiences that I had, but I think they will be equally fond memories. The boy is right now playing BB with a group of friends, I am a little envious, nonetheless.El Aguilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06818701314652670844noreply@blogger.com