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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (66935)	11/17/2002 10:00:28 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

One thing that concerns me with the L&L approach -- among several -- is that it seems, at least according to the tapes P has to listen to and I occasionally get squibs of, very mechanical, with no concern for the particular child, but just a scripted response so that if so-and-so happens, you say this-and-this. Another problem I see is that it doesn't give children the incentive to emulate those who are doing things right. Doesn't identify what are good behaviors and find ways to help children learn from those. That latter problem is, I admit, a more generic problem with contemporary life. We have these days no life heros. Kids have sports heros who often behave abonimably (Mike Tyson, O.J., L.T., etc.) and they have pop culture heros who behave worse (too many examples to even bother to mention any specifics), but they have few if any just ordinary life heros. Leaders to look up to with respect, to try to be like, where emulating them will be to the benefit of society. L&L seems to me to exacerbate, not try to counter, this trend.