Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!mhuxl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!eosp1!doherty From: doherty@eosp1.UUCP (Suzanne Doherty) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: strong parents Message-ID: <1079@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Aug-84 15:45:05 EDT Article-I.D.: eosp1.1079 Posted: Tue Aug 21 15:45:05 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Aug-84 02:11:15 EDT Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ Lines: 30 I thouroughly do not agree with Rich's "let the kids grow in their own little ways" type attitude. Children are a product of their parents attitudes and affiliations regardless of what one might think. The lesser the parent involves his or herself with the task of child rearing the less likely the child is to perceive theirself as human being worhty of the attention of suitable friends,suitors or mates.The caring attention and sometimes strong guidence a parent gives to a child is a good indication to a small being with high hopes, that somebody is there to help determine the difference between the good and the bad, the right and the wrong, even if it is not a spoken thing. The strong presence of an interested parent could mean the difference between the success and failure of a childs ability to adapt to a world that is ever changing. It is often very hard for some parents to ever consider smacking ones child in front of the youngsters friends, but once done it's a lot harder for young man/women to ever tell the parent to shut-up in front of the freinds who thought it cool. Also, who's to say that local school is to determine the education level of ones child and eventual career? So, ones son wants to be a carpenter, o.k. but this does not mean a tech. school instead of a college prep. H.S. curriculum is better for the young adult. One owes it to their children to held assure a successful future for them, and being a strong,interested,and loving parent is the way to go.