[valkyrieanne]

What about grandmas that used to have their grandchildren over to bake cookies, or teach them how to crochet? What about grandpas that used to teach the grandkids how to whittle or bait a hook and cast off? What about kids helping grandma & grandpa in the garden, or helping with the beekeeping?

Instead, we get another generation of sterile consumers whiling away their declining years in some combination of "Fantasy Island" and the "Ship of Fools."

[Mamzelle]

"Ship of Fools" and "Whatever happened to granny?"

I hear you. I live not too far from a resort area where a lot of vigorous retirees do their best to keep children far, far away from their golf games and cocktail parties.

I also have taught a few Sunday School classes where I took kids to the nursing homes. How the poor seniors, now unhealthy and dependent, long for these little kids! They beg them for hugs, and cry real tears for another word or minute of their attention...how the world can turn.