Jeanne Burton > wrote in
:

> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 07:02:16 -0500, Michel Boucher
> > wrote:
>
>>Some young people resent who you are and what you represent and so
>>they do everything they can to shock you. The punk movement is an
>>overt rebellion against the established order.
>
> I'm fond of saying that every kid rebels, no matter what length
> s/he has to go to in order to do it. In my case, my 25-year old
> was blessed/cursed with me, the weird, out-there mommy, so she
> rebelled the only way she could. She became a yuppie.
> (Seriously...bought her first house with her own money at 19, is
> on the fast track in retail management, married a computer/IT geek
> at 20 (evidently NOBODY gets married at 20 unless they're
> pregnant...it still shocks her cow-orkers that she didn't HAVE to
> get married) and her stocks and bonds are doing well - she started
> buying them her first week in the job market...at 15)

My my...you have some serious karma to deal with seeing as you
twisted that child beyond all human comprehension :-) And to think
that would be some right-winger's pride and joy. But you're the one
she rebels against. The problem is that we don't plan what our
children will rebel against. For example, my daughter's rebellion is
to NOT go to university. She has set her sights on acting instead
and moved across the continent to do it.

But it makes my point. Rebellion is rejection of values. Your
daughter rejected yours. She is doing what society has programmed
her to do which is part of the process of renewal. I suspect
Ranger's daughters rebelled too, only he doesn't know about it :-)

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"Compassion is the chief law of human existence."

Dostoevski, The Idiot