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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (78007)	4/13/2000 3:48:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

Did you read the material about animal behavior I posted to Croc? You can teach an animal tricks, but only tricks that somehow are congruent with their natural instincts. So you can teach a chicken to "dance" because they scratch, but you can't teach a cat to herd. If you give a boy a block, he'll point it around saying "bang, bang." (Wonder what they did before there were guns?) I think we humans just naturally have behaviors that allow us to live in a little group more or less peacefully. Extrapolating that to people outside "our group" takes work, but it's in harmony with our natures.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (78007)	4/13/2000 11:15:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

Big baby birds will push their small siblings to their death in order to get more food. My oldest daughter would definitely have pushed her brother out of the nest. She hated being cast out of the only child role. I'll never forget the day we found teeth marks on her baby brother sitting in his car seat in the hall(3 or 4 months old)- he was just sitting there doing nothing more than taking up space, and being a second child- guess whose teeth marks were on him?