Give Myself a Letter After 10 Years

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Give myself a letter after 10 years I have no idea what the world like? I have no idea if I become the one that I want to be? Whether I have children or not? If I have, they should be the cutest ones. I should love them more than love myself. I don’t care about their job prospects, getting rich overnight, owning a home, doing better than me, and becoming famous. I care about you, my children. Welfare is the top priority. And I suppose what I need to do is that if I know they are ready, just let them go. But I’m not sure that I can summon the courage to put my kids on bus or a bench when they are about 6 years old. I know that I have been swept up in the impossible obsession of our era: total safety for our children every second of every day. We wrap them in cotton wool. Statistically, and luckily for us, this is one of the safest periods for children in the history of the world. Like the housewives of the 1950s, today’s children need to be liberated. Unlike the housewives of the 1950s, the children can’t do it themselves. A child who can fend for himself is a lot safer than one forever coddled, because the coddled child will not have Mom or Dad around all the time. Kids are capable. Kids deserve freedom, responsibility, and a chance to be part of the
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