The one thing I realize with the youth of today

[Thumpalumpacus]

Parental investment is key to a child's learning. You're seeing the results of a generation of parents accustomed to treating the computer as a babysitter, I think.

Which, since you and me are roughly the same generation, gets more and more difficult by the year. I'm not sure, if this is just personal perception, but when I grew up, this world seemed friendlier and slower. At least to us in the Western world. There are more and more people barely able to scratch a living, even when working two or three jobs. And that's certainly not personal perception. That's a reality. These people, understandably have less time and less patience at their hands.

His mother and I both worked, at least until she was stricken with cancer and went on disability -- her chemotherapy brought on lupus.

We all had our issues when being teens or young adults and these keep changing with the times. What worries me more is the absence of dreams or ideals, according to recent polls. When I was growing up, we wanted to change the world, outworldly as that may seem. Todays youngsters, in their majority, strive to make money by any means possible.

That's what's worrying me more than any textspeech ever could.

I think adult cynicism has finally seeped down into youth. It was only a matter of time, once the hippies turned in their signs for mortgages.