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To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (1303)	10/23/2000 3:33:33 AM
From: Teresa Lo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8925

PEER ORIENTATION? and THE MARKET? These days, the kids are all insulated from the real world...and it's not a good thing, I think. Actually, I can rant now, about what might at the beginning to appear as a totally off-topic subject. A local "psycho"logist, Gordon Neufeld, came around to my daughter's school not long ago to give a lecture to the parents: user.dccnet.com familyplayce.org nsnews.com One of the "class parents" checked to make sure that I was going to show up to listen to his dude on "how to reclaim my child from her peers". I said I was not interested, much to her surprise. "Well, you should go", she said. I said, "Why? Who cares about all of this? It's not a big surprise that all these kids listen to their peers, since that is precisely what their parents are doing, when they worry about what the neighbours think? And now, here you stand, implying that if I don't go, then I don't care about my child, applying peer pressure on me. It's just like the stock market." That was the end of the conversation. I went home, and the 6 year old gave me the piece of paper, asking me if I was going to go, since she had heard that it was a play of sorts. I read it to her, and she looked up and said, "Who gives a shit about what the other kids think?" and we did a great high-five! T.