I was tired and a bit jangled after my drive, but swimming slowly up and down while watching the steady stream of kids and a handful of thrill-seeking adults joyfully hurling themselves off the boards made me smile.
Unlike the stereotype, it wasn't all about marrying, finding a steady job, raising kids and collecting a pension.
It's likely this degree of variability wasn't something previous generations had to manage, and I can only imagine the steady increase that kids will have to navigate in the years to come.
As a parenting coach and family therapist, I see a steady stream of "fidgety" kids in my practice.
At that time, Americans seemed content to feed kids a steady diet of hamburgers, chicken nuggets, pizza and grilled cheese sandwiches.
Without a steady, abundant stream of kids who continue their studies in math, science and engineering, our society will be without the talent needed to fulfill both business and social missions of the future.
So while my kids, and then my grandchildren, headed off to elite colleges and successful careers, his kids never found steady jobs, were seduced by drugs and crime, and burned through a string of impermanent relationships.
He would need a steady income to support seven kids.
I mean, sure, we had fusses — everybody does, all the kids that go steady.
"There's a heightened awareness that kids get a steady diet of violence, and some of that filters into the schools," he added.
