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To: epicure who wrote (2375)	1/12/2007 10:13:06 AM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20435

I don't have daughters so I cannot compare. When my sons were younger I felt I was fighting everyone. Wife, In-Laws, everyone caved in to buying the latest game. Wish there was scrap value in that stuff; the attic must be full of plastic garbage. These days the distraction is cell phones and computers. The ironic memory is recalling how my wife would ask me if "we" should take their games away if they were fouling up in school. "We". I didn't want them in the first place. What do they call that? Enabling? ---- It is a shame; there is so much life in books and so many children will never have it. Here's an oblique quote I like, from St. Augustine.... The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page". Turning that around, one could say those who do not read really do not experience, do not get the essence of the world...they do not "travel".