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- From: aaldrich@encore.com (Al Aldrich)
- Subject: Re: Mikey
- Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:03:30 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov16.202843.22410@u.washington.edu> <1992Nov16.210551.24872@u.washington.edu>
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- mimir@hardy.u.washington.edu (Al Billings) writes:
- >children (ignored by their parents the whole time!) running around the
- >ritual site, getting underfoot, and interfering with the activites as well
- >as destroying the ritual mindset. I am not joking. People on usenet are
- >going to get the impression from your post that he is a wonderful child
- >when, in fact, he is the worst behaved child I have ever seen and I have
- >little siblings and I used to babysit when I was a teenager. The so called
- >Elder is also one of the worst parents I have ever seen.
-
- Please don't blame the child for the parents irresponsibility.
- The child IS a wonderful child. Why doesn't this `community' talk
- to the mother and demand that she address the obvious problem?
- In our community, we adults with small children talked about this
- potential problem and decided to coop childcare in a different space
- than the ritual so as to avoid these kind of interruptions. We
- do set aside certain times in some rituals when we invite the children
- in and allow them to participate to some degree but with no expectations
- of anything but cursory attention at those times. I hope that the
- adults who feel like you do about Mikey will do something constructive
- about it rather than just grumbling about Mikey.
-
- Blessings
-
- al ( also )
-
- >Wassail,
- >Al
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- Al Aldrich inet:aaldrich@encore.com
- "..if you understood everything I said, you'd be me." miles davis
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