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In a message dated 10/17/2003 7:46:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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I thought that's the only way people ever found this list!

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Julie Solich

I was invited by the owner! <G>

~Kelly

Not another clique! <g>

Julie


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In a message dated 10/20/03 2:51:10 AM, mjsolich@... writes:

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I was invited by the owner! <G>

~Kelly

Not another clique! <g>

Julie >>

Talk about uschooling or you'll be stuck with lists that flame you to
damnation for asking about teenaged boys touching themselves "down there."

I was watching Wayne Brady's morning talk show while I was putzing around the
bedroom this morning, and a woman was on who's written a book about what our
kids are really doing and how to communicate with them. Yeah! Don't let
them watch the news, or watch it with them an explain. Have lots of controls on
their internet access.

Okay-fine, I suppose, but one story she told was of a family whose kids said
in the morning, during the Monica Lewinsky/Clinton problem, "We need to talk
about this intern thing," and she says the parents worried all day about what
the kids wanted to know, and when the (I presume after-school) discussion time
came, the question was that the kids knew there were interns in hospitals, but
why were there interns in the White House?

Not a bad question. It's not about sex, it's not about anything but "what is
an intern, anyway?"

Ms. On-TV-expert said "I hope they said nothing," and then she acted out kind
of hemming and hawing until nothing had been said, but with eye contact.

Here's what *I* wish:
I wish she had known enough to recommend that the thing to do was tell them
what an "intern" position is, that they're working internally in the business
they're studying.

It's not an easy word for kids to figure out on their own, because at
hospitals they also have "internal" medicine," but that's internal to the person,
while "interns" are internal to the hospital.

So the parents didn't KNOW the answer, and an expert is happy to encourage
parents just not to really answer questions kids have sat on all day after
announcing in advance.

Those parents had all day (thought they probably thought WRONGLY that the
question was going to be about blow jobs and not about "what does 'intern' mean"?

Sandra