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...college students, we are exposed to and expected to live up to the conventions of adulthood on a daily basis, and each day we succeed or fail on and at many different levels. In many ways we are living out an increasingly nuanced version of the life we've led since kindergarten, when we first entered into a world of social convention and conformity. Since then, we've always been looking to buy into the positives of conforming without selling out to the negatives...
...just that there's less to get underneath in a child. As less self-conscious beings, their social variations are more readily manifested and less easily suppressed. Most haven't been forced to give in to the cruelty of their peers, a resoluteness that will soften into adulthood as we harden into adults...
...leap into adulthood has become increasingly troubled. Baiul was arrested in Connecticut last week for driving under the influence of alcohol and reckless driving after she swerved off the road and hit some small trees. She was admitted to a local hospital, where doctors put 12 stitches in her scalp and treated her for a concussion. Her blood-alcohol level was 0.168%, well above the state's limit of 0.10%. JoJo Starbuck, a two-time world bronze medalist in pairs skating who has choreographed Baiul a number of times, said, "Watching her recently, I've been concerned that her lack...
What should the boomers tell their children about marijuana? Should the parents be candid about their own pot use when young? On what authority can the parents persuade their children to avoid pot when the parents have made it to full adulthood more or less seemingly intact, none the worse for their youthful indulgences...
...only real innocents around. And this probably explains why we can blithely identify with the man-boy in the frosted-cereal commercial while demanding that child criminals be punished like actual men. What could be better than being a great big kid, free of both the responsibilities of adulthood and the disabilities of youth, while the real kids are locked up in prison...