Something happens when children spend so much time apart from adult company. They start to generate a culture with independent values and priorities. … Absent established hierarchies and power structures (apart from the privileges that naturally accrue from being an upperclassman), kids create them on their own, and what determines those hierarchies is often the crudest common-­denominator stuff—looks, nice clothes, prowess in sports—­rather than the subtleties of personality.

From Smashing Magazine’s UX Design section

“Each time either of us spoke to our father, we marked it in the calendar — what time of day it was, how he sounded, what we spoke about.”