Two things this week reinforced something that I already believed, namely that children who are part of the middle class or above in the United States are coddled beyond belief. The first was a radio discussion about how kids today essentially don full body armor to ride their bike. The second was the asinine law proposed in California (by a legislator with no children I might add) that parents who spank children under 4 are committing a crime. Both of these are surprising to me, and I am not even an old coot (yet).
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