Liz and others:  My thoughts, for what they're worth these days, are that
our society has this intense need to "hurry growing up."  We hurry babies
to walk, talk, wean, potty-train, etc.  The ironic part about this is that
we hurry babies to become children, and children to become adolescents, and
adolescents to become adults; just so the adults can then revert to
infantile behavior.  How many of us know adults who do whatever they can to
revert to adolescence during mid-life (or escape from reality via drugs)?
I know my father went through what I call "divorced father syndrome" and
did the whole sports car, gold chains, and at that time disco shirts made
of Kiana.  Maybe if we just let kids be kids for a reasonable amount of
time we wouldn't have this need as adults.  For those who are interested in
this topic, David Elkind's book The Hurried Child is excellent.
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