Review: Snow Days will never be the same.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 14, 2013
We teens of the 70's were kept in the dark.  Either it was our parents not wanting to think about it (their own magical thinking-not me, not my kid) or the general media's attempt to make news palatable.  Not like today, where the first to get the graphic film and juicy details is rewarded.I know I raised my kids differently.  Both born in the 90's, they were not granted as many freedoms as their peers.  I was the bad guy to blame.  I also told them that not everyone is alike.  They went with me to do volunteer work as kids.  When things were stolen from their cubbies at school, we would attempt to right their wrongs, but we also talked about why someone might try to take something that was not theirs...We talked about why people pick on other people and girls are bad to clique up and hurt someone.  How to be smart without being the egghead, and talented yet still humble, and beautiful but still approachable.  MOST OF ALL I taught them to be a little wary.  Keep friends close when out in the real world.  Cell Phone, Triple A card and a credit card for emergency use, plus having a designated lead for trips to concerts, bars, nights out.  If someone could spike your drink, this is the person watching your back.  If there is any doubt about you getting home safely, then Mom would rather get a call to come pick you up at 3:00 a.m. or be billed for a night at a motel than go through loss or injury of her child.  This is in effect until Mom is 95.For all my parent's denials, I had classmates raped, killed in car accidents, commit suicide, in domestic violence, with substance abuse issues and I got a good look at Gay and Lesbian issues as an arts student in the 80's.  (Let's all come out just in time for AIDS to make others afraid to be around us.)No...we did not have it easier.  We did not know the traumas we had ahead.  Maybe if we had a clue we would not need so many shrinks and prozac.