... Too often these children are so unsure of themselves that when they get to college and are faced with some of life's harsher realities elect to stay blind drunk and/or blitzed out on drugs rather than facing their inability to cope.
Just as Monty Python's Norwegian blue parrot was pinin' for the fjords, I pine for the days of yore when kids were expected to fend for themselves and learn life's lessons as need be.
When I was in elementary school bordering on middle school (in those days called junior high), the school bully always tried to prove his worth (despite considerable deficits in cerebration department) by punching out those who were not so intellectually deprived. My retort to his threat of giving me a bloody nose was to threaten to sneeze on him if he did; that put the kibosh on his threat.
Moving right along ....
