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- Subject: Thank you all for your advice
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- From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
- Date: 27 Jan 93 18:10:11 EDT
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- Thank you all for your responses to my posts of last week ("My Daughter Needs
- to Be More Assertive..."). I'd especially like to thank the several teens who
- took the time to write me some very thoughtful e-mail replies.
-
- Of course, not everything you all said was quite what I wanted to hear, but
- then again, if I wanted just my *own* perspective, I could have sat here &
- talked to myself. :-)
-
- I did have a discussion with my daughter along the lines of "I hope you know
- that you don't HAVE to go to college next year, or even at all, if that is your
- choice. I guess I always assumed you knew that, but I guess I never really
- said it, so I want to say it now." That was a direct result of many of your
- suggestions, for which I thank you.
-
- Tomorrow she is giving a speech at the National Honor Society inductions at her
- school. Her peers selected her as the person they most wanted to hear speaking
- on the topic of "service to community". I really AM proud of her. It is a
- learning experience for ME, too (being a Mom, that is). I feel that the
- discussion I have gotten from this newsgroup is helping me to appreciate her
- and her good qualities for who SHE is, even if that is someone very different
- from who *I* would choose to be. Sometimes that is very difficult -- especially
- when it comes very close to the core of one's central values.
-
- Thanks again for all your thoughts and responses.
-
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- Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
-