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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: A Useful Deception
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Date: Mon, 12-Nov-84 02:31:48 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 12 02:31:48 1984
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Reply-To: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
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I am not generally in favor of deceiving one's children.  Indeed, I place a
lot of value on dealing straightly, and have found this to be a successful
approach.  But a friend of mine learned a little trick that is certainly very
useful, and seems to me to be a fairly harmless lie.  You simply teach your
kid (it helps to start very young) that they only grow when they are asleep.
This makes bedtimes much easier;  you simply point out that they need to
sleep to grow big and strong so they can do all those grown-up things they
want to do.  In some sense, this is even true;  I just put a lot more
emphasis on the growth part and less on the health part.
-- 

	Geoff Kuenning
	First Systems Corporation
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