What was breathtaking for me, viewing  this scene, is that replicates exactly what I’ve coined as “an Uncle Sal intervention”, named after a fictional Italian American from Brooklyn, who has become my alter ego. Sal has chutzpah in spades, instinctive street smarts, and whimsical humor. His MO is to reconcile children and parents. If he witnesses rude, obnoxious, or insensitive behavior by a kid to his or her parents, or vice versa, he doesn’t hesitate to take a kid or parent to task.

“It takes a village to raise a child’, but where in the hell is ‘the village’?”

Time to retire that cliché, along with, “We’re all in this together.”

There’s a desperate need for thousands of more Uncle Sal’s in our culture.

The reality of someome actually caring about family conflicts in someone else’s family, and having the courage to intervene, was already in major retreat in my Baby Boom generation.

It’s been even more starved in subsequent generations. This pervasive deficit perfectly illustrates that the slogan, “It takes a village” is a sham.

What was breathtaking for me, viewing  this scene, is that replicates exactly what I’ve coined as “an Uncle Sal intervention”, named after a fictional Italian American from Brooklyn, who has become my alter ego. Sal has chutzpah in spades, instinctive street smarts, and whimsical humor. His MO is to reconcile children and parents. If he witnesses rude, obnoxious, or insensitive behavior by a kid to his or her parents, or vice versa, he doesn’t hesitate to take a kid or parent to task.

“It takes a village to raise a child’, but where in the hell is ‘the village’?”

Time to retire that cliché, along with, “We’re all in this together.”

There’s a desperate need for thousands of more Uncle Sal’s in our culture.

The reality of someome actually caring about family conflicts in someone else’s family, and having the courage to intervene, was already in major retreat in my Baby Boom generation.

It’s been even more starved in subsequent generations. This pervasive deficit perfectly illustrates that the slogan, “It takes a village” is a sham