Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!torcsl From: torcsl@utzoo.UUCP (Jason P. Venner) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: open letter to mhuxv!segs Message-ID: <4936@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 22:03:45 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4936 Posted: Tue Jan 15 22:03:45 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 22:03:45 EST Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 28 >From uucp Tue Jan 15 01:36:39 1985 >>From mhuxv!segs Mon Jan 14 10:13:24 1985 remote from ihnp4 >Date: 14 Jan 85 10:13:24 CST (Mon) >From: ihnp4!mhuxv!segs >Received: by ihnp4.ATT.UUCP; id AA01516; 14 Jan 85 10:13:24 CST (Mon) >Apparently-To: !utzoo!torcsl > >Yes, yes. I'm sure you are painfully sincere about your wish for all the >children of the world to be secure, etc., by virtue of having been in physical >contact with their parents twenty-four hours a days until who knows what age. >Nonetheless it sounds awfully flaky to me. Parents are people, too. (I hear >you clucking your tongue at my unfitness already.) And need to have their kids >peeled off them. >Thank goodness your immaturity is neither fatal nor permanent. Have fun growing >up. > > What I am talking about is that it seems to me that the present system (norms of it anyway) seem to be turning out people who are painfully insecure. I am trying to explore alternatives which will prevent/lower the rate of this. I was thinking that some alternate method than normal isolation, with punishment being the reward (of attention) for being 'bad' would perhaps help. I am hoping to provoke discussion of this also. -- Jason P. Venner @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax,watmath}!utzoo!torcsl