Bill Schubart: Our children, ourselves

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Bill Schubart, a regular commentator for Vermont Public Radio and a former board member of the Vermont Journalism Trust, the umbrella organization for VTDigger.org. This piece was first aired on VPR.
At 72, I often hear myself say, “Well, when I was young …” followed by some judgment about the behavior of today’s kids. I seem to remember my parents’ expectations of me as a kid were quite different from what parents seem to