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Raising a 'geek' truly a cool idea

I never thought in terms of "bringing up geeks." But for much of my young life, I was a geek. Full disclosure: While other girls in junior high school had pictures of Leif Garrett in their lockers, I had pictures of Ronald Reagan.

It's hard to get ahead socially in such a case, but so it was.

I blossomed a good bit in high school, I suppose, though I never ditched my adoration of Ronald Reagan.

But I don't think my own parents ever gave a thought to whether I was a "geek" or "cool." In contrast, I seem to regularly come across and read about parents who are desperate to have "cool" kids.

But here's the big difference between the "cool" kids when I was young and the "cool" kids now, ...

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