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To: Bruce L who wrote (358938)	4/11/2010 4:36:20 PM
From: KLP	of 793928

Thanks Bruce....Mr. Howard is correct on so many levels, starting with the early years in school. I'm going to send this to my 14 y/o granddaughter, who can't read enough varied and interesting things. She read Atlas Shrugged last year, and her reaction was "It was bleak!".....It will be interesting to see what she says about this review, and if she gets the book.... The plain fact is that for children nothing is more fun than risk. And as the author points out: children's brains do not fully develop in the absence of risk, without the excitement and challenge of risk. Nor - because they are told to avoid "strangers" - do they learn how to make judgments about adults. If a child really is in danger - from a bully or being followed by a stranger - the safest thing the child can do is ask a stranger for help. We are growing a country of wimps. "Early development determines which neurons are to be used and which will die....whether the child will be brilliant or dull, confident or fearful, articulate or tongue-tied...Brain development is a use it or lose it process."

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