If I can stop just one more kid being abused, I will be happy".
Now it may be that one reason the women want more kids is because of pressure from their husbands, and I don't think that's been asked in the surveys.
Some of it, no doubt, was standard-issue denial (what does one more kid matter?).
Still, more kids are graduating.
Now, you are co-parenting one or more kids who are likely online, sometimes alone, if they are over the age of, let's say, five years old?
And the Web, Dr. Kanner said, "is one more arena where kids are bombarded with commercials, and the overarching message is that you judge yourself and others by what they buy and always need to be buying the newest".
I feel I am giving him one more year of being a kid by graduating when he is actually 18.
I'm not saying one of my kids is "more difficult" than the others, but so far my oldest wants a remote control car for Christmas, the youngest wants a stuffed unicorn, and the middle one has requested a dinosaur egg so he can raise and train his own velociraptor from birth.
One on the one hand, my kids are more independent: they can read, they can write, they can tie their shoelaces (well, almost) and I've even been paying them to sort, fold and put away their laundry!
It was almost as if we knew that we had only one more moment to be kids before all hell would break loose in the year to follow, a year that would terrify us with the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, and the shock of the Tet offensive and the debacle of the Chicago Democratic Convention". "Don't rush blindly into some convenient job that you will hate in a few years.
"One kid was panel-beating.
