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

To: epicure who wrote (101401)	4/20/2005 9:32:25 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

You are to be commended for not repeating the mistakes you were raised with. I believe that every person is responsible for his or her own behavior. However, I don't think the kind of upbringing you had made it easier on you. Did it? Didn't you have to overcome those things, rather than benefitting from the parenting you got? I agree, compassion, kindness, and forgiveness should be taught, but not lectured on or shoved down people's throats. Taught by example, if not by deliberate coaching. My parents taught by example. Some times I wish they would have been a little more explicit. They were very thrifty, for example, but they never taught me to balance a checkbook. I had to learn that myself. I can go along with some of what you say, but there is a limit. Tonight on The O'Reilly Factor O'Reilly interviewed an 18 year old boy and his mother totally without ridicule, in my opinion. The boy looked like a halloween mask, with extreme makeup and an orange roach spike hairdo. His mother looked ordinary. She claimed to be a witch, the good kind that doesn't harm the earth and so forth. The two of them argued that such an appearance was not so distracting to other kids and the school that the kid should be allowed his choices in school. O'Reilly argued as a former teacher that such a getup would prevent him from teaching his lesson plan. He asked the kid how he was going to support himself when he graduated. "Oh, I'm going to open up a really cool restaurant with [in effect, characters just like me cooking and waiting tables]." With what money? I wondered. What bank would give such a kid the kind of money he would need to pursue a plan like that? If he can find one, more power to him. I agree with O'Reilly. I think it will be difficult, if not downright impossible. I admired O'Reilly for interviewing the kid without ridicule, which in my opinion must have been difficult. I think the kid is headed for trouble, sooner or later. Some times I think I'm the luckiest man alive. My parents were married 53 years when Dad died. My wife's parents celebrate their 60th this year. Their children and my own siblings, spouse, children and mother are more important to me than any other human beings on earth. They taught with love, kindness, moral courage, and ethical values. Religion too, but of the kind that says a child must be old enough to make a conscious choice. I made mine long ago, and I'm no zealot. I'm sorry there were no good old days for you. For me, there were.