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To: Teresa Lo who wrote (1332)	10/23/2000 6:49:40 AM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8925

I'm puzzled by this, the last line in the third paragraph here, nsnews.com Now, the boomers' offspringhave compounded the problem with their own children. That implies to me that I not only should be a grandfather, but that I should have grandchildren old enough to steal cars. The oldest baby boomers would be in their mid 50s, when the hell do people think we start to breed, fer chrissakes, at age 14? We live in an section of town where there are not many children and the town is mostly segregated in the sense that most people send their children to Public Schools and the balance send them to a private school nearby. I suppose I defy convention, as I sent the older two to Catholic Schools and the third will attend next year. So they have few local friends, very few, and as a result we model out closely to what that doctor says we should be doing, I would imagine. Actually, I wish my youngest would have more friends. However I think one defining point in their lives was when I decided to ship them off to a sort of survival camp in Canada each year starting from around age 9 or 10. Bunched together with "peers", they learned how to work together with others and develop their leadership skills. My oldest returned this past summer from a 7 week canoe trip not many degrees latitude below the Artic Circle finally stopping in the Northern part of Hudson's Bay. They had little to eat except what they could forage for themselves. I would think it is something that is a productive use of peer pressure, as opposed to the viewpoint that peer bonding results in vandalism and stolen automobiles. So oddly, I suppose I'm a parent that did what that doctor says we should do and my feeling is that it works best the other way....or at least with a mix of both.