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Alright folks, I'm in chapter 5. I'll give my opinion of this book so far. I found one paragraph really interesting. This is on page 38.

When a fifty-year-old father tells his fifteen-year-old son that he will have to wait two years before he can have a car of his own, that interval of 730 days represents a mere 4 percent of the father's lifetime to date. It represents over 13 percent of the boy's lifetime. It is hardly strange that to the boy the delay seems three or four times longer than to the father. Similarly, two hours in the life of a four-year-old may be the felt equivalent of twelve hours in the life of her twenty-four-year-old mother. Asking the child to wait two hours for a piece of candy may be the equivalent of asking the mother to wait fourteen hours for a cup of coffee.

Overall I think this book is a total waste of time. It was probably a great read and really enlightening back in 1970. The problem is not that the book is old, but that it's completely outdated. There's little to be learned because the information isn't current. It's mostly dates and statistics from the 1950's -1960's.

I found a couple things amusing. Apparently a fad was raging at the time the book was written where people were wearing paper clothes. They would buy an outfit, wear it once, and then throw it in the trash. I wasn't born until 1974 so I have no recollection of this, but the author seemed to think that this would become the norm. Soon nobody would be wearing fabric clothes and everyone would be wearing paper clothes. This being the result of our "throw away society."

The author also talks in one section about how popular Barbie is and that now Mattel is promising us a new Barbie that twists at the waist. LOL. You mean Barbie hasn't always twisted at the waist? OMG.

Anyway, I'm totally bored with this book. I wish I could say that I was in chapter 5 because I'm really enjoying it. The truth is I'm just trying to get through it as quickly as possible so that I can start something else. I find my mind wandering often as I'm reading, but I'm not about to go back and reread the information.

I'm sorry to sound so negative about the book. I went into it optimistically. It's just not interesting to me. If the figures and dates were current it would be much more educational. So I've decided to suspend reading for now. If some of you start reading it and want to discuss it I'll continue reading it. But I think I'll channel my time into something else until then.

Cheryl