This Stone Soup cartoon makes me think, not of our children, who have learned from us and built well upon what they've learned, so that we in our turn have learned from them, but about our society in general, as we (re)discover the virtues of thrift and living within one's means; of childbirth as a natural, personal process; of breastfeeding; of small farms and organically-grown food; of respecting, enjoying, and conserving our natural environment. We knew all this 40 years ago; how did we fail to pass it on? Probably in the same way our parents' and grandparents' generations failed to pass their virtues on to us....
Not that progress isn't being made: somehow we've managed to make smoke-free airplanes and restaurants stick, for one thing; and many in the next generation are rediscovering what was lost between our parents' generation and ours: the blessings of having many children. :)
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