Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 07:06:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: wolfgang brinck <nativewater@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: baidarka 'Yaks for little'uns - a project story...
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
--- James Mitchell <mariner@seanet.com> wrote:
>
> Have long thought that one of the major problems in
> our world today is that
> we tend to hide our adult world away from the kids.
> Who are they going to
> model on if we are all locked up behind chainlink
> fences (my employer is
> notorious for that)? How are they going to learn
> what real work is like,
> both the hard part and the rewarding part? And how
> are they going to learn
> the skills? How are they going to get an
> understanding of what their parent
> found to be suitable work, which can give them a
> good basis for those kinds
> of choices?
>
Robert Bly, the guy who wrote Iron John and is
generally credited with starting the men's movement
agrees with you. He wrote that the problem is that
sons don't know what their fathers do.
Wolfgang
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