[Seahawk]

A couple of observations, some which have separate threads on PP:

An odd timidity has crept in with some kids...and parents. They seem set on avoiding risk at all costs, not realizing mistakes and a little knee scrape now and then shape kids more than any organized sport.

The most amazing reflection of that is the fact that a healthy percentage of kids do not apply for a drivers license when they are eligible!

Too many kids go to college. I think the stat is 70% of kids attend college at some point. We have lost sight that blue collar jobs are just as valuable as white collar jobs.

Life it ownself has indeed become very easy...and here is where I depart into GOML land. I had to work on the ranchette when I was a kid and I mostly hated it, especially after I got my DL.

But the work was there, it was mine to do and there was no way around it. So I did it and learned to work, to shoulder the responsibility even when I truly didn't want to. Learned behavior.

The ease of life in America has taken a lot of those important work opportunities away. Even when kids could be taught to work, many of my friends don't make their kids work...friend of mine has three boys and a large lawn. He pays a yard service, which I find ridiculous.

There are lot of good kids out there.