One good thing about good parents these days is they always look tired. A lot have hard lives--two jobs, different shifts, helping with homework, cleaning the house. But they also have the exhausted look of hypervigilance.Once parents could take a break at night, park the kids in front of the TV and let the culture baby-sit. Not anymore. Our culture, they know, is their foe. The culture brings sick into the room. They have to guard against it, be hyper vigilant: "Put that off!" "I don't care if your friends are going, we're not."It's a wonder they don't revolt.
I wish I could have said it as succinct and clearly.
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