January 20th, 2011 
admin Salon.com, one for the leading internet magazines yesterday published ‘How my hippie parents turned me into a consumer’ byFelisa Rogers. Rogers says, “Mom swore by composting and hand-sewed clothes, but I longed for the comforts of Kraft singles and brand-name shoes”
She seems to have spent a lot of melancholy, even depression. She said, “In my mind all of this leads back to the same thing: the shame of eccentricity and poverty. I wish, like I have wished a thousand times before, that we were normal. I wish that we lived in a white house with geraniums in planters and green shutters. I wish that my lunches were Kraft singles and baby carrots with ranch dressing, packed in authentic Tupperware containers. I wish that school shopping suddenly meant the same thing to my parents as it does to my schoolmates’ parents, who buy packages of white athletic socks and miraculous Side-out T-shirts.”
Despite Roger’s view of her hippie parents, they seem to have given her a creative and free spirit. She studied history and nonfiction writing at The Evergreen State College and went on to teach writing to kids for five years. She lives in Oregon’s coast range where she works as a freelance writer and editor.
The comments contain several reminiscences of children raised by ‘hippie’ parents which Salon.com titled ‘Tour Best Take” Rebellion My Hippie Parents’ because most of the writers defend their age of Aquarius parents and the way in which they were nurtured.
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