> I'm just doing my best to keep an open mind as my own children grow up; that their life experience will be vastly different. An easy one is the thought that t

> I'm just doing my best to keep an open mind as my own children grow up; that their life experience will be vastly different. An easy one is the thought that they are growing up with cheap, fast computers with FIOS as a high-speed connection to a feature-rich Internet. None of which I had for easily half my lifetime. I could bore them to tears with the vast differences between our childhoods that I can easily identify and I can't imagine the differences I haven't recognized yet. And the difference you do see seems to only be how things are more easy/convenient for them.