Hi Friends,

This article also said that parents aren't responsible for launching their children into the world flaw-free. The children will be fine, and will be able to learn from their own experiences.

Doesn't that take a lot of stress of of parents, who feel they need to launch perfect kids.

I'm just trying to figure out who I really am inside, at age 59.

Echoes, don't give up. You could live to be 100. Where were are parents hurrying us off to? Do you know?

Aunt Rose was another unfavorable and dreaded comparison.

I wasn't that concerned with primping, but my mother made me make sure my hair was styled. I think maybe I'm a frustrated intellectual in more ways than one.

Common let's all trying verbalizing who we really think we are, before our mothers or fathers meddled with us or tried to force us into molds, which were not the proper sizes or shapes.

Echoes, my brother was the brilliant, 6'4" wonder, who was a Cornell and Harvard graduate. He was the only male grandchild, and heir to the family business.

I guess I'm lucky I am somewhat normal.

How did we survive?

EJ