The Coral Gables Times

Thursday, March 1, 1962, page 35 (of 43)

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Are We Wiser Than Our Children?

PHOTOGRAPH BY LEWIS F. STOCKMEYER We've got a lot to learn at their knees, says this famous playwright (and devoted suburban father) BY BEN HECHT author of "The Front Page," "Twentieth Century," "To Quito and Back," "A Child of the Century," "Charlie," etc. At home in Nyack, New York-Ben Hecht and I'LL SKIP what sort of a fellow I was prior to the improvements introduced by my daughter Jenny, except for one item. I was an adult (not entirely); rather, I had acquired an Adult World. I had tacked it on to my character, willy-nilly, with the years. This Adult World is an odd structure. It is called Wisdom and Judgment, which it is, sometimes. It is also a shantytown of arthritic notions and lopsided whims. As we move deeper and deeper into this patchwork world of adulthood, one certainty sustains our ego-that we are wiser than our children, know more about living (and everything else) than they do. Never mind our ever-increasing murder and divorce rates, lunacy and suicide statistics; our staggering load of prejudices, frustrations, regrets, and atom bombs. Never mind the fact that juveniles, although they play a bit with matches, have never set fire to the world, never started a war; that they have never darkened the earth with injustice or confused it by writing bad books. Whatever the facts, we adults are, if nothing else, smarter than our kids. And one of our most important functions is to guide them-to become like us. Also very potent in most adults is the notion that children are an alien breed, startling and incomprehensible and misinformed. No memories of their own childhood are in such adults. The child-they-were has been removed from their consciousness as completely as a troublesome gall bladder is plucked out of their interior by a surgeon. And they are the surgeons. Jenny began pointing out to me the many flaws and fallacies of adulthood when she was nine. She used no books and indulged in no lectures. She enlightened solely by example. I NOTED that my daughter was able to fall asleep without the aid of barbiturates, bottled beer, or deep massage. I noted that she never boasted or told lies, that she never wasted any time trying to earn anyone's esteem. I noted that she was fond of nearly everyone she met (under 12) with the exception of a few boys whose legs were too fat or who couldn't do any tricks on her trapeze. I had rigged one up in her bedroom, a sort of memorial to my early 20 Suburbia Today, March 1962