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From: elt@astrovax.UUCP (Ed Turner)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Loving Kids Too Much
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Date: Thu, 24-May-84 13:12:06 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 24 13:12:06 1984
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The horror of it is that those who do not (cannot) love their kids enough to
make them lovable are frequently exactly those people who were not loved
enough themselves as children.  Sometimes they know it and sometimes they do
not.  When they do know it, there is often still a confusion between the
(important) emotional aspect and such things as gifts or just spending time
together.  [That last sentence isn't too clear; what I mean is that it is not
so much reading your children a bed time story that is important as it is
their perception that you *enjoy* reading to them.]

Children are undiscriminating learning machines, not least of emotional 
responses and attitudes.

This is one of the ways we can tell that the world was not designed with
any particular regard for human happiness.

Ed Turner
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