Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucuxc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!pking From: pking@uiucuxc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: Raising kids in your spare time Message-ID: <31400016@uiucuxc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 12:32:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucuxc.31400016 Posted: Mon Feb 11 12:32:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 04:18:27 EST References: <217@ttidcc.UUCP> Lines: 25 Nf-ID: #R:ttidcc:-21700:uiucuxc:31400016:000:1347 Nf-From: uiucuxc!pking Feb 11 11:32:00 1985 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 --