13 Replies to “The Children Are Our Future”

  2. In the future, there will be pediatricians and gerontologists, those *specializing in 1st childhood and those *specializing in 2nd childhood patients.

    No one will practice adult medicine. There will be no demand for it.

    The concept of responsible government will be deleted from human memory for producing anxiety.
    – Hal 2001

    *(Those of a logical bent, who ask how can this be called a specialist practice? Everyone will be special, opining otherwise will be committing a social offence.)

  3. Hah! Can’t happen in Canada because only special kids get to see a pediatrician. You can’t just go see a specialist, you have to have a referral, renewed every 6 months!

    1. And this can be a problem when you have a child with serious health issues who has to leave the familiar surroundings and staff at Children’s Hospital and navigate a different and unfamiliar adult health system.

  4. HA! Lollipops and Highlights Magazine … find the animals hidden in this picture. The infantilization of America is nearly complete. Now all we need is another 100M dependents flooding across our So. border

    1. Canada’s been infantilized for years.

      I noticed that while I was teaching. During the mid-1990s, I had a student in one course who whined that the hand-outs I distributed didn’t have holes punched in them. When I told him that he could go to the department office and use the hole punch there, as I’m sure our secretary wouldn’t have had any objections to that, the kid looked at me as if I was from somewhere south of Mars.

      How dare I force him to show some initiative and get off his backside to do something for himself!

      Like the teacher who used to be a neighbour of mine once told me, when children like the Grade 5 and Grade 6 classes she taught behaved like children, that was because they were, well, children. When they’re young adults and behaved that way, there’s no excuse.

      1. I believe it is human (if not also animal) nature to KICK mature children out of the nest. It’s imprinted on our DNA to shove the children out the door, when they are of an age (18) when they can take care of themselves. We are losing that primal instinct … and I don’t believe mankind were meant to do so.

  6. Well that’s a timely coincidence:

    After languishing in my kindle library for a few weeks 2-3% read, I have resumed reading Diana West’s The Death of the Grown-Up.

    I’m really enjoying it.
    I’m curious to see if she will cover 20-something yo “women” who talk like 8 yo girls.

    Recall Barrycare mandated that adults up to 25 yo be permitted to remain on their parent’s medical plans.

    1. I believe I was covered by my parents’ medical plan while I was an undergrad, but that was because I was still a dependent. I got my B. Sc., got a job, and moved out when I was 21, after which that coverage ended.

    2. Gawd! Don’t get me started on babytalk … Dr. Hazy Ford was about ALL I could take of THAT bullshit!

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