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Never of -you in particular-.
Just wanted to add my two cents about 'sparing' children by not communicating with them about potential dangers within their familiar environment. Kind of "If I don't look and don't talk about it, it won't happen". I understand the impulse, and there is a kind of conventional wisdom that what someone doesn't know about, can't hurt them. But that leaves children with nothing to guide their developing judgement about potentially untrustworthy people. Many adults who clam up about the kind of thing that 'we just don't talk about' aren't really sparing the children at all -- they are sidestepping the hard task of explaining some of the perils and ambiguities of the real world, in which some of our relations are nasty pieces of work, and authority figures abuse their power with kids who have nowhere else to go, and don't even have words to describe what has befallen them. Nor do they always know who to approach for help, or even that they are -entitled- to help. Deirdre On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 14:41:30 -0400, Kathy N-V wrote: But would have thought any different of me? |
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