Latest Breaking News
In reply to the discussion: White House May Look to Compromise on Contraception Decision. [View all]The Doctor.
(17,266 posts)That's apparently what we have to deal with when we recognize that we hold something of value that will let us get something of greater value.
Children do not see the larger realities that the adults have no choice but to deal with.
Children will complain that they might have to sacrifice a bicycle, because they cannot understand the value of the car we might buy.
Children will never understand that we can gain a great deal more than we lose, because they can only focus on the loss and will refuse, kicking and screaming, to look at what we have bought with it.
I'm glad that by now, even my own young children have come to understand such an adult concept. It makes me very sad to see so many 'adults' that have not acquired that level of understanding.
But now I'm sure that some child will complain, and a jury will be appointed.