By Jim Hagarty
2018
Reading the reactions of a lot of people to high school students briefly leaving classes to call for measures to end school shootings reminds me that an awful lot of people hate kids. They despise them. And for some reason, they have no problem publicizing their loathing of young people. What is sadder is that a lot of these haters are parents. Men and women who espouse “tough love.” In my experience, “tough love” is the first cousin to “no love.” A woman once told me, “You can love your kids too much.” Yes, I thought, as I walked away, that is the problem with the world today. Kids are getting too much love from their parents. I really wish the people who think this way would commit to staying childless. They will be happier being free of offspring and the kids they might have had will be spared a childhood where the lovin’ is measured out in miserly, tough amounts and where the kids have to jump through impossible hoops to get any at all.
