Thursday - August 13, 2020

I got my first “real” job when I was 14. My stepfather (yeah, that one) had a number of really interesting ideas about child rearing. Most of them came from the 50s. The 1850s. He believed, for example, that childhood had become unnaturally stretched out in modern times. The idea that adulthood started at 18 was preposterous to him. In the “good old day…