I get a certain pleasure out of seeing my children struggle. Life has become more complex as it has become easier. Sustained periods of work and effort seem to have been replaced in the 21st century by short bursts of left clicks, downloads and Google searches. Life experience has taught me that sometimes the Internet will be unavailable, the cable lines will be accidentally disconnected, or friends wouldn’t return our text messages in time. It won’t always be easy, and it will always be complicated.
A touch of moderate sadism in parenting might actually be a good thing. I come from the generation that coined the phrase, “No pain, no gain.” Make it burn, kiddies.
So go study something - I’m watching the game in HD.
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