I rant on. Skies so blue you could die of boredom. Same dull weather day in, day out, till you went mad. You don't know how lucky you are. My wife says I shouldn't lie to the kids, but I disagree.
Psychologists say parental exaggeration plays a vital role in a child's development.
Or if they don't say this, they should. We've heard that this generation is the first that will not live as well as its parents, but we can't let them find out. We owe our children hope, a future, freedom from the drudgery of the past. To give them a sense of progress, we have to tell them how bleak our own childhoods were, even if they weren't. You kids get some privacy here.