My daughter is fourteen years old. She is also seeing a fourteen-year-old boy. He is a pleasant man who is extremely well-behaved. He visits us every Sunday, and he spends the whole day in my daughter\u2019s room with her. To avoid upsetting them, I had the following thought one Sunday:<\/p>\n
\u201cWe live in the twenty-first century. Children are growing up more quickly these days. Could it be that they are producing their own children there? I hurried to her room, opened the door, and heard them conversing as the lamp was dimmed. You know what I see when I walk into the room looking like I\u2019ve got you? The boy is lying on the couch reading aloud while my daughter is knitting a scarf in the armchair. \u201cWould you like some tea?.?\u201d was all I could say.<\/p>\n
To buy myself some winter boots, I went to the store. A father and his young son were trying on shoes right next to me.
\nDad: \u201cI take it you like these ones? Are they sufficiently comfortable?<\/p>\n
Son: \u201cThey are amazing, indeed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe price seems right, we\u2019ll take these,\u201d said the father as he assisted in putting on the second shoe.<\/p>\n
Startled, son: \u201cWhat? Is that all? Is this the final store we must go to? Could I just go shopping with you from now on, Daaad?<\/p>\n
I was a courier for an internet retailer. There are a lot of clients, and the work is good, but that isn\u2019t the point.
\nEvery child in the kindergarten class, including my daughter, was asked what their parents did for a living. \u201cMy father gives people some bags,\u201d my daughter cheerfully replied. People pay him because they are pleased to receive the bags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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