It might sound a paradoxical thing to say -- for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time -- but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Famous Quotes / Midge Decter

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Midge Decter: "It might sound a paradoxical thing to say -- for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time -- but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given."

Quotations about

Abandoned	Allowed	Anomaly	Avoid
Charade	Children	Devices	Effort
Feeling	Foolish	Freedoms	Generation
Genuine	Given	Ground	Growing
Hours	Impositions	Independence	Indulged
Into	Long	Making	Maturity
Meager	Might	Mind	Most
Neglected	Occupied	Order	Paradoxical
Parental	Part	Proclaimed	Pronounced
Proving	Route	Safekeeping	Sheer
Slogging	Slow	Small	Sound
Still	Strength	Strong	Struggles
Surely	Taking	Thing	Thus
Time	Training	Trivial	True
Truth	Ways	Weak	While
Whose	Your

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say -- for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time -- but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given. - Midge Decter