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- From: nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci)
- Subject: Re: Potheads of the 70's Raising Kids
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:17:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.201708.6650@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>
- References: <1jfaiqINNa1e@gap.caltech.edu> <1993Jan19.210640.4653@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> <1ji2fuINN477@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1ji2fuINN477@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> lauraf@classy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Laura Floom) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan19.210640.4653@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
- >>
- >>If that didn't happen to you, then this thread doesn't apply does it?
- >Why not? I am, by your terminology, a Pothead of the 70's, and
- >I am rearing children. I think it is an important discussion. I dont
- >know why you brought it up if you didnt expect people to have opposing
- >views/experiences.
-
- My point was that it might be a good idea to share some of the horror
- stories you had with drugs, with your kids. If you don't agree with my
- suggestion/opinion/directive/edict/whatever-you-name-it, then by all means
- post if you wish. If I don't agree/strongly agree/etc. ad nauseum, you
- might see a response from me to that. Thus begins the usenet cycle of life.
- Yes? Problem??
-
- Now. Suppose we were discussing safe driving habits, and someone suggested
- you be honest with your kids about traffic tickets you received. If you
- never got any, then that wouldn't apply. Same with the horror stories I
- referenced. I hope that clears this up.
- >
- >I sure hope this isnt main tactic for keeping your childen drug free,
- >but if it is, you will need an answer for:
-
- (Hope WHAT isn't the main tactic?)
- >
- >I remember grappling with that one, and finding out for myself that it
- >really isnt so awful, infact it was rather fun.
-
- The more I think about the possibility of my kid experimenting with drugs
- and compare it to my own experiences, there are places in his life where
- he and I won't see eye-to-eye and he will go his own way, as did I when
- I was younger. Being honest and raising him in a home where mutual
- respect abounds is the best I can do, and I hope the results are the same
- (or better) than mine. I seem to have done just fine - there are things
- I wish someone could have warned me about but I doubt I'd have listened.
- It may have been nice to hear them, though, from someone I respected and
- unfortunately my parents didn't cut it in that area.
-
- We had people come and talk to us in high school - representatives
- from Alcoholics Anonymous, Gamblers Anonymous, and one ex-junkie I
- remember - and their true life experiences DID sink in. They came
- across as older versions of what we could become if we weren't careful.
- Some listened; some didn't.
- >
- >You dont seem to like me saying this. Too bad!
-
- That's just NOT the issue. Not at all. Reducing my disagreement with
- you to a personal level won't get ANY point across.
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- "I'm not asking a question; I'm making a statement. Let me finish
- and then you can answer it." Dan Quayle to Al Gore, 10-13-92
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