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From: pking@uiucuxc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Raising kids in your spare time
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Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 12:32:00 EST
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As far as helping your daughter overcome the sex problem --
I have two daughters and one son -- my older girl (now 7)
oftens states her desire to be a nurse (my mother was a nurse)
I tell her she can be a doctor is she wants, and encourage
her to at least think about the traditionally male dominated
professions.  I make a point of teling her there is 
absolutely no reason she can not be a doctor, or a lawyer
or even an engineer if that's what she wants to do --
fortunately the school system we belong to is also helpful
in this area-- however this child's interests are cooking,
sewing (none of which she learned from her mother, domestic
skills are not what I'm good at), which is also fine with
me--she has a Aunt and a father to teach her the domestic
skills and me to encourage her to broaden her horizons and 
enroll her in chess class, computer class and the like --

As an aside I once heard a story about a little girl (age 8 or
so I believe) who told her family that she wanted to marry a 
doctor, because they made all the money, when it was suggested
by a non-family member listening that she become a doctor herself
the child was horrified as were the other members of the family--
girl's shouldn't be encouraged to become doctors, it was much 
easier for them to marry doctors -- a sad story in my opinion for
current trends --