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Famous Actor Regrets How He Raised His Baby Boomer Kids - YouTube Autogenerated transcript below for those who don't want to watch the video (lacks punctuation, sometimes provides incorrect words) I think that I and I assume millions of others of my generationwanted some of the things that we did for our childrenand our wives and ourselves.Was explained by the fact that we were products ofwhat is called the depression. Sadly, they saymany young people today don't even know what that term means.It means that everybody was poor.Statistically almost everybody was poor for about 10 years.Starting with the stock...

Over the past 2½ years, I have deduced that a few readers do not agree with my ideas. I'm clever that way. Most of my dissenters send in e-mail messages, some of which are printed in the paper. I like this. I can handle criticism. On the other hand, I hate it when no one writes in at all. That's awful. Coming to work the other morning, I took a voice mail from a reader who said he hated my column. You'd think such a reader would want to avoid me at all costs. But not this one. He actually...

Forrest Gump's mother told him: "Life is like a box of chocolates... ." My own mother told me: "Honey child, there's a thin line between love and hate." What words of wisdom did your mother or loved one impress upon you? Anyone?