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