Posted on 03/27/2008 8:28:03 AM PDT by captjanaway
The following is an excerpt from Lieberman’s upcoming book American Dreams Interrupted: How to Stay Sane and Safe in a Time of Terror.
Age of innocence
Underneath our pseudo-sophisticated exterior beats the heart of a child. Although society calls on us to be mature – especially now – in our heart of hearts, we secretly still want to believe that our wishes will come true when we blow out our birthday candles, and that we will live “happily ever after” as the fairytales promised. Even though we may be wonderful mothers or fathers, underneath we’re nostalgic for our own childhood days, when we were being taken care of and kept safe. Suddenly, the innocent child in us has come face to face with unbidden evil, as our world is shattered by terrorist attacks. Whatever our chronological age, our “age of innocence” has ended. If we feel robbed of our wishes and fairy tales, imagine how our children must feel.
It’s a hard time to be a parent – and a hard time to be a kid. Besides having to feed, clothe, shelter and hug your children, you have to protect them from drugs, alcohol, shootings, pedophiles, gangs, copycat suicide … and now terrorism! What’s happening in the world today can leave indelible impressions upon our little ones.
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You are correct. Not the same world. Too many illegals, too many muslims, not enough people to stand up for what this country believes in. Eventually, everyone will be standing in the soup line. Wake up America, pull yourselves up by the bootstraps and bring this country back to what it use to be.
Just another Foreign Medical Graduate running off at the mouth.
No, and you can blame much of that on the relentless 24/7/365 fearmongering by the MSM. I’m doing my darndest to make sure my kids aren’t raised as helmeted, padded, leashed hothouse flowers.
I’ll bet every generation goes through this. When I was a youngster in the late 60’ to early 70’s I knew very little about wars, assassinations, terrorist bombings, riots, corruption, the economy, etc, etc, etc. My world revolved around family, friends, school, church. To there everlasting credit, my parents never thought to dump their deepest cares on us kids. Why should’t we do the same for our kids?
First off, it’s not “their” children. Children belong to the parents. Liberals seem to think the State owns the children.
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