9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for January 24, 2007

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Dear Thorax, I try to help my grown children with the benefit of my hard-won experience. However, they never seem to welcome it. Why won't they listen? Yours, Voice in the Wilderness Dear V. in the W., On my planet, one of the highest and most pathological crimes a citizen can commit is that of advice-giving. After brief trials, the guilty are sentenced to become subjects of amusement through gaudy executions. However, when clemency cannot be shown, those found culpable of giving advice are sentenced to listen to it. Mind your own business, and let people revel in their own successes and disasters. That is my advice; and if you're the person I think you are, you're already ignoring it.