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Camp musings.
April 9th, 2004 09:46 amMy husband called a couple of times from the camp in the mountains where he and my daughter have stayed for the week. Sneaking out with his cell phone after lights out, hee! He's there as one of the parent chaperones -- he signed up because kidlet has so many separation issues, and I can't get any time off from my job at this time of year to volunteer myself, so he did it just to make a good-faith effort for our daughter. Shoulda seen his face when he was actually selected -- he was planning a wonderful week of passion at home with *me*! LOL, it was priceless. But it did the trick and made the week away entirely manageable for her. I sure hope she outgrows this much dependency at some point though -- I sometimes fear she's going to stay with mommy until she's, oh, forty-five or so.
But my real concern after husband's last call is for the other kids. He has gained a *real* appreciation for our daughter this week -- to which I say "'Bout time!" But he says most of the other kids are really, really rowdy, and at least half of them are on medication. *Boggles* How can it be that so many kids are medicated these days? Isn't anybody *seeing* them for who they are and appreciating them for it? Are they all just trying to keep them docile and well-behaved, because they can't deal? Because, I just can't accept that so many kids literally have medical problems. How can it possibly change so drastically over a few generations? In my day (oh god, heeeere we go...) I didn't know of anybody on medication, and the term "hyperactive" was unheard of. Now it's the most common thing around. Especially the boys -- you see a rowdy, loud kid around (being a *kid*, for gawd's sake) and everybody's saying "gee, he's hyper -- the parents should look into that. He should see a doctor." I know our current society isn't especially appreciative of or tolerant of children as a whole. But, my god. Because if you tell a kid he or she is such-and-such a way, they'll buy into it. They'll live it. They'll become it. They're very innocent and impressionable, are children.
Sorry, rants-r-us this morning, I guess.
But my real concern after husband's last call is for the other kids. He has gained a *real* appreciation for our daughter this week -- to which I say "'Bout time!" But he says most of the other kids are really, really rowdy, and at least half of them are on medication. *Boggles* How can it be that so many kids are medicated these days? Isn't anybody *seeing* them for who they are and appreciating them for it? Are they all just trying to keep them docile and well-behaved, because they can't deal? Because, I just can't accept that so many kids literally have medical problems. How can it possibly change so drastically over a few generations? In my day (oh god, heeeere we go...) I didn't know of anybody on medication, and the term "hyperactive" was unheard of. Now it's the most common thing around. Especially the boys -- you see a rowdy, loud kid around (being a *kid*, for gawd's sake) and everybody's saying "gee, he's hyper -- the parents should look into that. He should see a doctor." I know our current society isn't especially appreciative of or tolerant of children as a whole. But, my god. Because if you tell a kid he or she is such-and-such a way, they'll buy into it. They'll live it. They'll become it. They're very innocent and impressionable, are children.
Sorry, rants-r-us this morning, I guess.
