[Wolves] Air that I breathe

[Kat Goodwin]

> Hi Kat
>
> Blimey have I just landed from the planet Mars?
>
> Over the last few days I have made some postings which were serious,
> generally most responses were funny and sent in that vein. Today I
> thought I would inject a little humour at my own expense (you know
> stereo type father over possessive over protective and so on) so far
> every one I have related this story too has wet themselves with laughter
> (Including my wife, children and mother in-law) it was meant to be funny


Glad to hear it - unfortunately I haven't met you so I didn't have much to
base any assumption of sarcasm on, and even more unfortunately I have met
people who actually do think like that and they make me really quite
angry!...

enough said...

Kat

>
> I agree with your sentiments in part
>
> 1: 12 years may be OK if it is done correct. Not in this case were, in a
> 20 minute lesson a teacher to a class of 30+ kids reads from a sheet
> verbatim shoves it in their hands and says take this home.
>
> 2: In my day sex education was not as good as today however judging by
> the amount of failed marriages, single mothers, fathers paying child
> support to one, two and three woman I wonder if it is better? I hasten
> to add I work with someone who currently pays CS for three separate
> woman and he's just under 30 so he would have been educated in the
> progressive ideas era.
>
> 3: My wife and I are open with our children however some old ways are
> better ie "there is a time and a place for everything" I know of umpteen
> families who get pissed night after night in front of their kids and
> then complain when the kids start coming home drunk. Standards and
> protecting what is yours is nothing to be ashamed of.
>
> I will not live in the gutter, some people like it down there, walking
> down the road with a can of special brew in their hand letting the kids
> pee up a tree or in an alley because they are too lazy to go into a shop
> and ask " my kids been caught short could I use your loo?"
>
> Oh and finally I was a kid too, once, surprise surprise I know what goes
> on in the camp they built on the red wreck.
>
> Really nice guy honest
>
> Pete
>
>
> On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 13:11, Kat Goodwin wrote:
>
>>
>> I think its difficult to learn how to handle interactions between
>> genders
>> when they aren't allowed to develop relationships.  Discussing issues
>> frankly and providing them with the information they need to make
>> choices
>> is, imho, as much as you can do.  In my experience (and I was a teenager
>> not all that long ago...) those children whose parents forbid them to do
>> such things either took that as a prompt to behave as 'badly' as they
>> could, or were forced to hide perfectly innocent relationships that did
>> arise.
>>
>> Of course, its all a matter of personal choice as a parent...
>>
>> Kat
>>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>
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> Regards
>
> Peter Cannon
>
> peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk
>
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