I miss hearing about the boy in the bubble.  The literal boy in the bubble from years ago.  In many ways, I feel I hear about the same motif from my friends who have kids.  They’re hyper vigilant about sex predators or the wrong influences or violence.  Constant things coming in from outside their safe homes to hurt their precious kids.  I still don’t understand why people look at kids any different than adults.  It’s all because of that ‘developmental’ idea that everyone’s bought hook line and sinker.  No one’s questioned it in recent years.  No one seems to want to.  It works.  It’s marketable.  You can ‘buy’ into it.  You can legislate it.  We think it’s the right thing to do just as the parents of the boy in the bubble keeping him in the bubble.  The parents believed that’s where the boy belonged.  That his future wasn’t outside the bubble.  I miss the boy.  I wonder if he’s well.  What did he ‘develop’ into?