Last night, I went with the kids to watch “Ice Age 2: The Meltdown“. Great movie.

It was quite entertaining, and while the film focused on the impending ice meltdown which is probably the best information drive anybody could do on educating people the issues on global warming, but the characters were really well developed.

Each had his own story line. The mammoth is faced with his responsibility as being the last of his species, and his discovery of his affection for another mammoth who thinks she is an opposum ( which effectively portrayed people who don’t understand themselves). The Sabre tooth tiger faces his fear of water, while the sloth (Sid) explores his own self as a role model, and what is really important to him in life, while the 2 opposums and 1 squirrel ( in search of his fabled acorn) provided comic relief and an interesting sideshow.

My five year old son who normally fidgets and moves around halfway to the movie sat through the whole movie. Five stars out of five!

It is the worst of times - allegedly for the new generation. Newsweek just ran an article about how the competitiveness of the new generation is driving more and more school children to cheat. Time ran a special edition on how tough it is for today’s kids ( where I got the story about the eMBA for three to six year olds) .

The best one however, is this quote from Fortune Magazine, ” Today’s Childhood has never been tougher - on the Parents.” Yeah! if the kids only knew ….