kids will be kids, if they're allowed

By Todd Stadler · Friday, June 22, 2001 5:59pm

I think I'm going to cry. Again.

This is just too much, people. I don't want to read about children's lives being ruined because they were not allowed into the "right" kindergarten.

I don't want to read about it because it shouldn't happen in this world. I'd like to think that it's not happening in this world - that it's happening in New York, which is, in fact, part of a different planetary system than where I live.

But it's more like a harbinger of things to come, I fear.

Hmm, rather than bemoan once again the stupidity of humanity, I will make a pointless pledge, officially witnessed by no one that I know of, and with no legal or moral backing to it:

If you ever see me acting like anyone in the above-linked article, you have my permission to push me into the grass and give me noogies until I promise to stop bugging my kid.

If I'm going to have a smart child, it'll be because he was born that way and wanted to be smart.

But at the rate things are going, maybe I just won't have a kid at all. I think he'd be smart enough, but the world he'd inherit is getting dumber all the time.