For forty years I have preached, taught and written about the dangers of "Over Functioning" in family life, work and church. It seems as though I have completely failed to convince most parents that such activities are bad for the kids and bad for the parents so they are bad for everybody. Trying to force our kids to be more than God created them to be is not only impossible, it is dangerous.
It causes the family to DYS-Function an get distorted. Tonight, Karen and I watched the first chapter of the HBO special John Adams. It needs to be retitled "John and Abigail Adams" because she was every bit as important to the movement of freedom as was John.
Karen and I marveled at the way they interacted with their children. No pampering or political correctness or coddling there. Abigail was teaching her brood Latin and Greek as she directed their education. Nowadays we have parents cheat so their kids can get good grades or complain bitterly to the school when they get less than an A in class.
Here is an interesting article in the CNN Money online magazine. Read it and see what you think. While you are at it, go rent the DVD of John Adams.
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