My friend Adina Soclof is a parenting expert, blogger, and all-around good person.  Today I’m over at her site, parentingsimply.com, blogging about the Deification of the Children, which originally appeared on my “other blog,” jfxramblings.blogpost.com.

An interesting trend is emerging in the way some parents recognize
their children’s milestone events, that I believe is
generation-specific: Facebook birthdays posts, for instance: have you
ever seen friends post happy birthday messages to their “awesome,
accomplished, talented” kids (who are turning 5) who have “taught me so
much, inspired me” and thanking them for the “honor and privilege of
being your mom”?

Which leaves me to wonder what exactly has a five-year-old
accomplished on this earth that hasn’t been facilitated by, organized
by, paid for and dutifully recorded digitally by his parents?

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