4 - Friday, October 25, 1985 - North Shore News az IT BELATEDLY dawned on me that I’m an actual Echo Baby Boomer. I was wondering what the heck I was. It seems there are quite a few of us-guys old enough to know beiter, out who somehow got caught up in the late 70s phenomenon of procreating. And not just men, of course, but women who are in their late 30s who figure it’s now or Never. * . . (TT “".. here we are, otherwise... sensible people | in our 30s and 40s, playing house in the _ Strange calm of | the mid-80s. °* ‘ In my case it was a mat- ter of ‘procreating yet again. 1 had ‘done it twice ‘before with ‘my first wife, back in the 60s, so by the time that weird collective urge for babies came along ‘half a'decade or'so-ago; ‘I . Was. one of the poor male’ ‘bio-units who got swept off ‘| our: feet and used by sorne ing.” re,.. otherwise -. sensible | | people in-our,30s and 40s," playing . house —in™ “the: ‘strange: ‘calm ‘of: the- vmid~ {female for child-bearing _ In any event, here’: we ' of other fun prizes.. I guess what I am is a pre-Wartime Baby Boomer turned Hippie Era non- Boomer turned Yuppie Era Echo Baby Boomer, in a nutshell. From this awesome van- tage point in human histo- ry, I can. state. certain obscure and trivial’ facts’ of ' life with authority.:I know, . for instance, that: the in- vention of Pampers ranks up ‘there with the Titan rocket. I know what a 'Go-Bot is.: 1 also know—and this is , really esoteric—that having small kids around nowa- days is quite different from doing the same 15 or so years ago. Fifteen years . ago, for instance, it was “ fashionable to think that — “° your children were really noble little savages at heart and you shouldn’t discipline them. There may still be pockets of.radical parential - liberalism around here and there; but not many. The ‘difference between. now ’ and then amounts to’a kind of ‘Mlid-Generation Gap. -{*have noticed, for in- stance, that more children arc brought up ‘to say _ thank-you and please today. "othan'was. the ‘case when the - “. previous’ wave. ‘of spoiled brats went through. That's encouraging. And maybe I’m just see- ing things,’but it seems to - me that the latest wave of ‘offspring are ‘just ever so ‘slightly:. sharper and quicker. than their older brothers and sisters. It’s x hard thing to: be sure of, you understand. Not» smarter! No, no. ‘I “don't think intelligence has _sghaneed much since the Cro: Magnons. At least not’. _ fromthe ‘evidence. None of ° comy kids ‘seem smarter.than | “Me and I don’t see that ’'m:’ any! “smarter than my- parents. Again, not from ‘the evidence.. ‘Nevertheless,. it seems to.. . me“that some. sort ‘of. GHOULISHLY GREAT pas PARTY! 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Besides I have an editor’s pen poised cver my fingers like a Damoclean Sword. So let me select a choice "example, as the kids would | “say The other morning, because everyone was in a rush, a certain six-year-old boy was being dressed by | . his mother. Being healthy, he didn’t mind being naked in front of his mother at all. Contemplating his own body, the boy observed: “You know, Mommy, it’s - not just that I have a j pecker, it’s like I’m a pecker all over! Only I’ma } pecker that gets to wear shirts and socks and stuff and... He paused mischievous- ly. Then ‘added: ‘‘...and kiss his Mom.”’ “TI guess what I am is a pre-War- time Baby Boomer turned Hippie Era non- Boomer turned Yuppie Era Echo Baby Boomer, in a nutshell.’ ‘1 just thought that was one of the more perfect expressions of | the. basic male condition that I have ever heard. All: over. 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