From: utzoo!dciem!mmt
Newsgroups: net.women
Title: Re: Fed and healthy
Article-I.D.: dciem.158
Posted: Thu Jan 27 15:03:59 1983
Received: Thu Jan 27 16:49:11 1983
References: utzoo.2783

There is something to be said for the idea that children should NOT be
brought up instilled with the parents' ideals, but should very early
be given the experience of people with different ideals. Society has
a great deal of trouble with dogmatic and fanatic people who think
their ideals are the only correct ones. Not being religious, I sent
my young children to a religious family for day care for a while.
Whether or not they wound up religious was their affair, not mine.
(As it turned out, they didn't). The important point is tolerance,
and that comes from understanding. As with language, understanding other
people starts young. I think that my kids, however screwed up they
may be by my ``aged parent'' standards, at least understand other
people pretty well. I think that it is important that you DO send
your children to another environment for day care, even if one parent
stays home all day. It is important, too, that the day-care environment
be a loving one, not an institutional leave-em-and-get-em-back place.
		Martin Taylor