“I’d like to mention a special kind of bullshit that has taken hold in this country over the last 30 or 40 years. It’s a form of bullshit that can really only be called “child worship”. It’s this excessive devotion to children. I’m talking about today’s professional parents, these obsessive diaper-sniffers, who are over-scheduling and over-managing their children and robbing them of their childhoods. Even the simple act of playing has been taken away from children and put on Mommy’s schedule in the form of “play-dates”. Something that should be spontaneous and free is now being rigidly planned. When does a kid ever get to sit in a yard with a stick anymore? You know, just sit there with a fucking stick? Do today’s kids even know what a stick is? You sit in a yard with a fucking stick and you dig a fucking hole. And you look at the hole and you look at the stick and you have a little fun.”
~George Carlin, It’s All Bullshit And It’s Bad For You
