I think the term child-rearing is insufficient in describing the raising of an entire human being.
For example, the headaches and nightmares of raising a toddler pale in comparison to dealing with a teenager.
Teens are so clinically insane that they deserve their own term: teen-rearing.
This makes great sense to me. Especially the “rearing” part. Rearing actually applies to all stages of life: you have to wipe a toddler’s rear, you have to kick a teen’s rear, and then back to the wipe for an elder’s rear.
In regards to raising a teen, society has the rearing part all wrong.
I am a champion of cryogenic-rearing. This is based on the scientific evidence that a teen’s brain goes loopy until age 25.
All teenagers, on the day after their 13th birthday, should be frozen in a cryogenic chamber until 25, at which time they can be thawed and released into the world.
I might slip a few beers in there too so they stay cold.
Well, technically you don’t have to pay for college…but my husband and I wanted treated college like an insurance policy…insurance that they wouldn’t return.
I recall a line from The Cosby Show: “We promised, when our kids moved out, that we would NOT LET THEM BACK IN.”
God makes teens the way they are so it’s easy to drop them off at college.
Yes, but then you have to pay for college.