среда, 14 марта 2012 г.

Drawing a line

FAMILY TIES

The decisions we make as parents have long-term implications. This obvious reality made itself even more clear to me one night recently when we hosted our young adult son and several of his friends. The topic under discussion was wrestling, the made-for-arenaover-the-top-kind, that drives fans to squeal and non-fans to ridicule or bemusement.

One young man gleefully defended such wrestling as playful entertainment, a farce-like re-enactment of the big themes of life: good and evil; struggle, defeat and victory; sex and all its drama. He acknowledged that his parents did not share his passion. Our son agreed with him, to my surprise, saying, "My parents wouldn't …

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