A Mind That Suits
What doesn't kill me, makes me laugh... usually.
Thursday, April 24, 2003 ::: How to Protect Yourself From Your Parents. This was the stunning headline on the front of the Personal Journal section of this morning's WSJ. It wasn't advice for kids whose moms slap them too hard. It was advice for financially independent adults whose parents need them. The advice offered was sound--plan ahead--but the tone smacks of the whiney '60's generation complaint that they are "the sandwich generation:" just as their kids grow up and leave home, their own parents begin to slow down and need some attention. This is viewed as an enormous burden by the Selfish Generation, which it is, but the rest of the world calls it "life."
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