Applies to grandparenting as well......

 

Being a parent, Johnson insisted, isn’t about nobility or beauty, pride or pleasure. Rather, it is “the simple, nerve-wracking, mindless, battering-ram process of trying to teach a savage to use a fork.”

-Daniel Smith, from here

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To distracted to answer the question.......

 

Civil War historian Shelby Foote, when asked to cite anything about the American Civil War he did not understand, often replied, “I still don’t know how they did it… How does a starving man march 20 miles, then go into a 3-hour battle?”

That’s a great question. Each generation, in raising the next, has to wonder how much toughness to pass along and whether the deprivation of hardship is doing harm.

-Michael Wade, from this substack

Priorities......................

 

...choosing grandparenting over blogging.  Back later.

One upside...............................

 

.....................................of young children:

One of the best parts about having young children is so much of your time is devoted to their activities that you don’t have a lot of time to pay attention to the outside world. Some parents complain about being busy all the time but I find it to be a welcomed break from paying attention to all of the craziness this world has to offer.

Life its ownself............................

 

...........................grandparenting is pretty great.

Life is.................................

 ......................very, very good.

the artist's.............................

 ...........................................artist.

Hate it.............................

 ..................................when that happens.

You can tell you're getting older......

 ..............when you understand this sentiment:

I would like to see social pressure applied also in other areas: against marijuana use; against promiscuous use of four-letter words; in favor of forming relationships that result in grandchildren. 

-Arnold Kling, from this substack

Life Its Ownself.......................

 ...........the joys of parenting — and grandparenting:

Optimizing...................

 We are optimizing for all the wrong things: Busyness.  Nonstop information.  Digital relevance.  It is easy to convince ourselves that we are getting so much done when in fact we are hardly getting anything done, at least not of real value. . . . If the goal is to optimize, we shouldn't be focused on doing more for the sake of doing more.  Rather, we should be focused on being fully present for the pursuits and people that matter most to us.

-Brad Stulberg, The Practice of Groundedness