[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by buggyone

Well, we all did send our children to learn to think for themselves, didn't we?

If the idea was just to have a carbon copy of ourself, the child would have been home schooled in a vacuum and not given access to the thinking and actions of others.

You are totally correct.

I do understand why they've all followed their own paths.

Both of ours, and their spouses, got a great education, have traveled the world, are successful in their careers and homelife. We are extremely proud of them and their children.......

It's not just our adult children, but all of our friends and neighbors kids as well.........although they respect their roots, they have chosen other paths........but in the larger scheme of things, we all can see it's all "worked out well"........

Our immigrant grandparents found solace in the old ways......
Our kids' generation were a different kind of pioneer.........
keeping what works for them, while discarding what was irrelevant.