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Lullabies for Little Criminals

I'm in the middle of this book right now, and loving it to death.

Heather O'Neill's character "Baby" has stolen my heart.

Baby is all the children raised by people who have no business being parents rolled into one.
The addicted.
The mentally ill...dragging their children through life.

The resilience of children is astounding.
That's what makes the current practice of wrapping children in bubble wrap and never allowing them to learn the meaning of failure, and how to cope with it...to rise above it...absurd.

Children like Baby cope and claw to survive...while coddled suburban teenagers contemplate suicide because they're bored and depressed with life.

Yeah.
Ironic.