It’s almost that formal time to give thanks and you know what I’m thinking? How many of us were taught to give thanks before we received. This is a good thing.

What is not a good thing, though, is how many younger people today believe that it’s cool to relax before they’ve actually done anything.

One of the pleasure-pain games we played as kids went like this. First, eat your vegetables and then your meat. That philosophy applied to other areas. Schoolwork before play; chores before pocket money; work before vacation.

In those days, we had to earn the right to goof off. We knew that chilling is not a human right. It is a reward.

Don’t get me wrong. We knew how to chill alright, but we did it only once everything else had been done.

So, please teach your children that Thanksgiving is a time to chill, but only after they’ve eaten their broccoli.

Welcome to my side of the nonsense divide.