Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 10, 2024

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    Pointspread  4 months ago

    Mr Miller does a great job.

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    Ratkin Premium Member 4 months ago

    Very stressful time of life

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member 4 months ago

    Check out the most recent book from Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, which describes how today’s teens (especially teenage girls) have it even scarier than it was back in 2016, when this arc first came out. Haidt chalks it up mainly to the ubiquity of smartphones.

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    keenanthelibrarian  4 months ago

    I think we all (boys and girls) couldn’t wait to “grow up” – meaning be teen-agers. Much good it did us, when all that happened! So don’t wish too hard for what you want, because when you get it, … you know the rest.

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    Sephten  4 months ago

    In a book I read years ago, the main characters, a man and a woman, discussed how they were always told as children, “You’ll understand when you’re older.” They felt that on becoming adult everyone learned some terrible truth, allowing them to understand what children couldn’t — and they didn’t want to grow up.From the point of view of my eight decade, I can say it’s more disappointing than terrible.

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    Doug K  4 months ago

    Cue up “When I was 64”

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    mac04416  4 months ago

    Getting a Deja vu feeling. Is this a rerun?

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    TampaFanatic1  4 months ago

    Awesome arc! Next up, 24?

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    Count Olaf Premium Member 4 months ago

    Like this arc and hope Danae finds the same door.

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    E.Z. Smith Premium Member 4 months ago

    It’s a slippery slope.

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    PraiseofFolly  4 months ago

    Isn’t ‘teenage’ a relatively new term and concept in Western Culture?

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    JamieLee Premium Member 4 months ago

    Why did she jump to 14, and then all the doors are 10 more years apart? She was not 4 years old before this happened.

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    Kaputnik  4 months ago

    When I was a teenager, that really was to old to go trick or treating, except maybe as an escort for some little kids. Now I see teenagers out there begging for candy along with the younger ones.

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    SusieB  4 months ago

    Most of us find out that being an adult is not all it’s cracked up to be.At least now I’m retired and it’s less stressful not having to work

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    jvo  4 months ago

    24 is the new 14, by then kids had finished school, got a job and were looking to move out of home.

    That was some time ago lol.

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    David_the_CAD  4 months ago

    Jonny Diaz – More Beautiful You

    youtube com/watch?v=XNqQUojBg84

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    nancyb creator 4 months ago

    my favorite time of my life is between ages 24 and 34.

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    el_eye  4 months ago

    I like this thread !

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    sandpiper  4 months ago

    Some of the sequence over the generations from the 40’s to present. Some well-to-do parents hired nannies or baby sitters to mind their children during the after school hours. While only the dad traditionally provided the income, some moms socialized. In more modest households, mothers did not work outside the home and handled the usual tasks including ‘babysitting.’ Throughout, radio dramas occupied whole families in the evening. The genesis for the ‘entertainment’ drug.

    Introduction of tv in the 50’s allowed parents to work around the house while children sat mesmerized by the flickering images with everyone gathering for evening shows. but that togetherness would not last. Later, having tv’s in other rooms allowed families to separate to watch their personal favorites, not always the same. The hook was set for future generations,

    The introduction of the cellphone is simply the latest iteration of distraction and separation within the generations. The emotional and psychological damage from unfettered undisciplined use it has and continues to cause are finally being recognized as dangerous to society as a whole.

    However, there are articles that report the following.

    Schools that have banned phones are finding fewer on campus conflicts and emotional distress among all grade levels. VA just passed a bill that will accomplish the ban within the next year. [Too bad they were so slow off the mark.]

    Parents who tightened use of phones have found more time to share with their children and less stress for all.

    Airlines and other transportation systems have found that banning use of cell phone during travel resulted in fewer traveler complaints?

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    mindjob  4 months ago

    At least she wasn’t voted “most acne” by her HS class

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    GoNavy81 Premium Member 4 months ago

    I agree with mac04416; I think this is a rerun.

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    bigheadx Premium Member 4 months ago

    I remember that this was a pretty good series of cartoons

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    DaBump Premium Member 4 months ago

    Now I can hear Frank Sinatra singing “That’s Life!”

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    KEA  4 months ago

    Timely with Inside Out 2 in the cinemas

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    Mike Baldwin creator 4 months ago

    Bravo. Wonderfully done. It’s Miller time!

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    cmxx  4 months ago

    I remember reading this arc, but I’m pleased to say that I don’t remember anything about it—I can enjoy it brand new all over again for the first time. :-)

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    pflutke59  4 months ago

    My granddaughter is eleven going on 20. Glad I only get to visit and enjoy their company, then let the parents take over.

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    locake  4 months ago

    I never had hormone issues when I was a teenager. I noticed and liked boys, but it was not overwhelming. I also never had any hormone issues in my 50’s when I went through menopause. No hot flashes, sleep problems or mood changes. I guess I’m just a stable person.

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    kathleenhicks62  4 months ago

    What is there to like?

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    susanj77  4 months ago

    There is no one answer. Americans are stewed in multiple issues, lust for happiness through materialism, children exposed to more than we ever could have imagined decades ago, parents feeling hopeless and helpless about how to communicate with their children, we underestimate the learning of babies from birth to 18 months when a vast majority of their security and learning takes place (Ghosts from the Nursery, and Scared Sick by Robin Karr-Morse and Meredith Wiley).

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    Chalres  4 months ago

    ♫♩ When I was 29, it was a very good year… ♬♪

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    batesmom7  4 months ago

    The original monopoly game (The Landlord’s Game) was intended to encourage the idea that the value of land should be for the people and not claimed by property owners. It morphed into the total opposite. See the New Yorker article, “How Monopoly Became America’s Cruellest Board Game.”

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    lnrokr55  4 months ago

    I thought so, it’s a repeat !

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    destry1970  4 months ago

    yep

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    Cactus-Pete  4 months ago

    Hmm, the same plot Sally Forth has been doing the past few days.

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    namelocdet  4 months ago

    Careful when get past 50. That “Check Engine” light will come on.

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    SrTechWriter  4 months ago

    I’m very much enjoying this – for the Nth time.

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    eddi-TBH  4 months ago

    Teen years are best once you have a decade or two to edit the memories,

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    dogday Premium Member 4 months ago

    14, 15 were REALLY difficult years.

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