When they said, "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink," they may as well have been talking about children. You can surround your daughter with books but you can't make her read. You can throw out your TV but your son will watch it with a vengeance elsewhere. You can talk about the evils of drugs and liquor but they will give it a try, anyway. In sum, it is easier to teach a cat to jump through flaming hoops than to send your children in the direction you want them to go.
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Answer to Wednesday's puzzlement: Linguine means "little tongues."
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I once sold a Donald Duck anthology to a man named Donald Drake. It was his real name, too.
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Some paranoid people really are being persecuted. And, sadly, some people with inferiority complexes really have inferiorities.
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I do everything online: pay bills, order goods, read articles, send e-mails, blog, etc., etc. My wife says I am working toward never having to communicate with another human being in person. She may have a point.
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