This 4th of July weekend proved it. A long weekend is more tiring than the weeks leading up to and following said long weekend....at least if you have Energizer Bunnies for children.
Maybe we should institute some kind of rule that allows parents an extra half day after a long weekend. I would have been much more productive yesterday if I could have slept in until 11 and started working around noon.
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Friday, July 01, 2011
Is Idiocracy closer than we feared?
Mike Judge's science farction movie, Idiocracy, described a future America run by people who were just plain dumb. It was caused by the systematic genetic dumbing caused by the lower, less educated classes reproducing like rabbits, and the upper, more educated classes always finding excuses to put off having a child. The first ten minutes breaks down this scenario in a funny but sad way. As my father always said, science fiction is just the present slightly exaggerated.
Today, the New York Times has a blog on how my generation is at the root of this issue. The opening sentence shares a frightening statistic, "Nearly half (43 percent) of college-educated Generation X women — those currently between the ages of 33 and 46 — are childless." This phenomenon is often apparent on House Hunters, the default programming on our television these days, it seems. Very often, the featured family on House Hunters is a couple in their 30s or 40s, sans children, looking for a vacation home or an upgrade. They're a dual-income family, clearly well educated, and completely fixated on double sinks and granite. The closest reference to a family is the repeated playful jokes about maybe needing a nursery, "someday." Here's one such example. Maybe they met too late in life to have kids, you say? Sure, I understand that. Mr. Right, etc. But while I'm a believe in fate and G-d's will, I think we need to pick our heads up from our laptops every once in awhile to notice when they are trying to tell us something.
It may sound absurd but I'm always so happy when they highlight a family with kids doing the house hunting.
Today, the New York Times has a blog on how my generation is at the root of this issue. The opening sentence shares a frightening statistic, "Nearly half (43 percent) of college-educated Generation X women — those currently between the ages of 33 and 46 — are childless." This phenomenon is often apparent on House Hunters, the default programming on our television these days, it seems. Very often, the featured family on House Hunters is a couple in their 30s or 40s, sans children, looking for a vacation home or an upgrade. They're a dual-income family, clearly well educated, and completely fixated on double sinks and granite. The closest reference to a family is the repeated playful jokes about maybe needing a nursery, "someday." Here's one such example. Maybe they met too late in life to have kids, you say? Sure, I understand that. Mr. Right, etc. But while I'm a believe in fate and G-d's will, I think we need to pick our heads up from our laptops every once in awhile to notice when they are trying to tell us something.
It may sound absurd but I'm always so happy when they highlight a family with kids doing the house hunting.
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