{"id":503,"date":"2009-04-20T06:54:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T11:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=503"},"modified":"2009-04-20T06:54:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T11:54:31","slug":"the-next-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"The Next Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I was a kid, the powers that be were always drilling us with anti-smoking and anti-pollution. The idea being that our parents were lost, but the next generation could be trained to be better, healthier citizens.<\/p>\n

[The commercial with the Crying Indian (or, crying Italian-American guy pretending to be Indian<\/a>) apparently came out somewhere around my second birthday, but it was still being shown when I was old enough to understand it.]<\/p>\n

It totally worked with a lot of people. It worked with me. We hit our parents with the same stuff. My mom smoked, and we gave her a fair amount of hell about it. And we were appropriately shocked and upset when people littered.<\/p>\n

I just saw a Visa commercial where some kid is showing his dad how to be less damaging to the environment. Don’t let the water run while brushing your teeth and such.<\/p>\n

Visa has their setup: “Water cup, two dollars.” And so on until their “priceless” line. So, in this case, I guess the eight-year-old has his own Visa card, but other than that, I get the idea.<\/p>\n

Now, I don’t let the water run and run while I brush my teeth (or do the dishes). I recycle. Etc. So I wonder what my daughter is going to bug me about.<\/p>\n

What’s the next big moral or practical lesson that my kids will be hitting me with? Something that I’m not already doing. Predictions are hard, because if I could know what it was, maybe I’d do it now and nip her little holier-than-thou attitude in the bud.<\/p>\n

Or maybe it’s something like, “eat less chocolate,” which I already know about, but ignore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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