I head from an acquaintance of mine back in the States.  It seems his teenage son has a problem with nail-biting.  The poor kid gnaws on his nails whenever he fells stressed, nervous or bored. And being a teenage boy, that means pretty much all the time.

Actually, when I was in high-school a friend of mine also bit his nails obsessively. He beat his habit in a month, by digging his fingernails into a small bar of soap he carried around with him.

It seems such simple solutions are no longer in favor today, and American parents prefer to have their children take anti-depressant and anti-psychotic drugs. Yeah, seriously! I did a bit of research and it seems that over 40% of adolescents suffer from this problem and that anti-depressant and anti-psychotic medications are the most common way of dealing with it.

Maybe I’m just old fashioned, but screwing with kids brain chemistry in these situations just doesn’t seem right.

Actually, it’s part of the ongoing and escalating drugging of American society.  Every year more and more “conditions” are invented and thresholds for things like hypertension and cholesterol are dropped. Feeling blue, insomnia, occasional muscle twitches and trouble concentrating have somehow become conditions that must be treated with chemicals.

What ever happened to “Just say No to drugs”?

I’ve long held held a theory that all little girls at one point in their lives dreamed of marrying a handsome prince and living in a castle. Most women will confirm this, although occasionally begrudgingly. The other day my friend surprised me by insisting that she never held such dreams.

“No. When I was a little girl I wanted to take over the world and make all the men worship me.”

Ah yes. Well your friends have always seen that in you.