With family lives getting busier and busier and more complicated with technology are our children becoming the "symptom" of whats wrong?The warning for us all to heed? Those of us here struggling to heal have at times needed to back off from the outside world to get the quiet we need and the rest. Like sponges kids pick up our stresses, then go to school where there is more stress and competition to learn at all costs, dress like everybody else to conform, they watch violence on t.v. and games, have pressure to belong to too many other activities don't have regular bedtimes (its shocking how many are up past 9:00 p.m. in elementary school)and don't get the nutrition to grow. The "kid" cereals and candy. are loaded with chemicals and aspartame. I agree that if more kids could be kids and enjoy the beauties life gives us free they might be a lot better. They are bombarded everywhere and parents BUY into it. Is it no wonder that they now have adult diseases, and adult problems? They aren't out running off energy around playing and using their imaginations. Is it any wonder they act up in school? They are out of sorts and don't know how to relax. When the regular family time is now to go to the mall instead of the countryside.Then what about the quilt trips laid on parents to buy, buy, buy?