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Baby boomer children – what’s wrong?

Jane Lubchansky Adams has written a disturbing article, The Kids Aren’t All Right, about the privileged children of the Baby Boomer generation.

In the main, she seems to be speaking about the children of her peers, the upper middle-class children of college-educated parents. (She is a graduate of Smith College.)

She make some interesting observations about boomers:

Even the most idealistic baby boomers didn’t expect to achieve their career goals without a long apprenticeship and a lot of hard work. They didn’t feel entitled to a lifestyle marked by extended dependence, or expect to enjoy the same standard of living at 25 that their parents spent decades attaining. Baby boomers were eager for their independence, and by the time they had the responsibilities that come with it, they were (mostly) ready for them.

and their kids:

The truth is that some of those kids, who are in their twenties and thirties by now, are not all right. They’re failing to thrive. Despite having every constitutional and environmental advantage—including healthy minds and bodies and loving and intelligent parents—many of our children are not growing into the independent, generous, kind, happy, successful, law-abiding, contributing citizens we expected them to be.

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Here’s to the Road Warrior

It’s a cold Monday morning, just above freezing, and I have more chores than time, as usual.

I was just getting ready to grumble quietly to myself, when I thought of the many road warriors (sales representatives) who are already out on the road to see prospects. I began to smile, my mood lifted immediately, and I realized how fortunate I am.

I have written many posts about the triumphs and pitfalls of working for others and for yourself, but I have never addressed the aspects of an outside sales career that make it one of the more challenging occupations.

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It’s time to travel again

It’s time to cast aside our winter garments of repentance and travel the world again with a free heart and and a hopeful mind. Hopeful is the operative word here, because travel has the tendency to put us into places that are more colorful than comfortable. I have been thinking of past trips lately and images of colorful spots in far places keep coming to mind.

I will post a few pictures of my own in the next few days, but I fell upon a wonderful collection of travel pictures this morning at Etherfarm, a multi-part blog originating in Santa Cruz, California.

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Rites of Spring

In this part of Virginia, we use a pickaxe to plant flowers in our stubborn clay soil, so we feel pleasantly stiff today after planting seven new bushes. We have seen bad results when trees and shrubs were planted directly … Continue reading

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