Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
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I just want to be a great example to younger kids.
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.
You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up.
Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.
It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.
All children have creative power.
Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.
There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play - at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.