I noticed that too, but in fairness, it's worsened by the poverty of the medium (online forum discussion) which doesn't provide for emotional calibration. Our brains tend immediately to snap into a binary formation in…
Generalizing? Sure. Recklessly? I don't know. If you take your point literally, it's impossible to make any social observations at all. That can't be right. An observation needn't be true of everyone (you, for instance,…
I certainly did not say that about American culture. God Bless America.
Your last paragraph (if I'm reading it correctly) leads to a point I've often mulled over. We tend as parents to overcompensate for what happened to us as children. I think this happens at the social-historical level…
Parenting is off topic in a thread about family responding to a post about parenting? I don't think so. Actually, I was reacting more to the triteness of the thread than to the OP. But it's pretty clear that the OP is…
Sorry, but this is getting a little unctuous. I don't think the trend in our time of parents organizing their lives around their children is very good for anybody, especially the children. I'm thinking, for example, of…
I noticed that too, but in fairness, it's worsened by the poverty of the medium (online forum discussion) which doesn't provide for emotional calibration. Our brains tend immediately to snap into a binary formation in…
Generalizing? Sure. Recklessly? I don't know. If you take your point literally, it's impossible to make any social observations at all. That can't be right. An observation needn't be true of everyone (you, for instance,…
I certainly did not say that about American culture. God Bless America.
Your last paragraph (if I'm reading it correctly) leads to a point I've often mulled over. We tend as parents to overcompensate for what happened to us as children. I think this happens at the social-historical level…
Parenting is off topic in a thread about family responding to a post about parenting? I don't think so. Actually, I was reacting more to the triteness of the thread than to the OP. But it's pretty clear that the OP is…
Sorry, but this is getting a little unctuous. I don't think the trend in our time of parents organizing their lives around their children is very good for anybody, especially the children. I'm thinking, for example, of…