For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 05, 2011

Ah, yes, I remember 7. Too bad we can’t keep the freedom and enthusiasm of that grand age. Too young to have any heavy responsibility but old enough to have freedoms to explore, play, inovate, create and forge friendships based on feelings rather than positions or advatages or, shall we say it, prestige and money.

Nope. He’s a Canadian. He ends up as a journalist and novel author with a wife and kids. Much better than President.

Oh, let the kid enjoy being 7 – responsibility will be there soon enough!

Perhaps America will have a Canadian president one day. It will be the last prejudice to fall. Happy LaboUr Day, everyone!

“The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.”

− Helen Hayes

I’m with Michael. Adulthood ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Susan I’d have done anything to stay between 7 and 13 … being 31 in eleven days scares the hello outta me!!!Morning Neighbours.

I didn’t like being between 7 and 13. I wouldn’t want to go back to being a kid… not that being 19 is a picnic, either.

My fave age was 12. Right before I hit you-know-what. I’m fourteen now and while it’s OK, I feel way too old.

I liked 7 also. Third grade was when kids started getting mean and cliquey. Puppybreath said it best though…My oldest is 8 and just starting third grade. I almost feel bad for her, but am doing my best to gently prepare her for life. “Find friends who are truly nice and will be your friend through thick and thin, and be a genuinely good friend back.”

I was happy being any age I was when the teacher INSPIRED me. It was then when I wanted to forge ahead by not only doing the homework assigned to me, but that of the next grade or so above me. Sadly, there were but only 3 or 4 who affected me that way. I call those my “TROPHY TEACHERS”. God bless them.

Spanish, “you-know-what” has its compensations. And then when you’re 21…BEER!

If I had my druthers, I’d have stayed 22 forever. Potential is high but expectations are low, and you’re old enough to be ALLOWED to do whatever you want while still being young enough to DO it

I think it’s much better if parents raise their kids to be honest, ethical citizens when they grow up!!!!!

;-)

I wouldn’t go back unless I could take with me what I have learned since then – and a better recall system to go with the larger memory bank.

Kids have always wanted both. They wanted to be older so they wouldn’t be bossed around. But they also wanted to be free of responsibilities or obligations, all your rent and expenses paid for you, your meals cooked, your room cleaned, your laundry done for you. And who can blame them? I’d love a life like that, especially since at that age, you think you have all the time in the world ahead of you.

In some ways, I kinda want to stay young forever, too. In others, though, not so much.But whenever I start feeling down about aging, I remember …Getting old beats the heck out of the alternative!

I won’t give homework before 4th grade, unless the student actually asks for homework. And when I do give a student homework, its easily doable, and ungraded.