The Millers

Yea, that is along the lines I was thinking. I like the byproduct term you
used. I think many people I know consider their kids "byproducts" of them.
Now that too could move on to a whole new discussion of kids behavior and
how parents treat their children because they feel their byproducts.

The Millers in NM
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 17:35:02 -0700
> From: Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...>
> Subject: Re: Hmmmm, "RAISING and I GRADUATED"
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> On Jan 2, 2006, at 1:38 PM, The Millers wrote:
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> > -=-I think the parent saying, "I graduated 2 of them" puts the
> > work, talents,
> > life experience, etc., in their (the parents) palms and not the
> > true person
> > who accomplished the tasks. Does graduating really have anything
> > to do with
> > the parent? Yea, that's my question for pondering.-=-
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>
> Ah.
> So a parent who "graduated six kids" did a big job, and the kids were
> byproduct maybe?
>
> It's like all the work of teaching, when a homeschooling parent (more
> than unschoolers) sighs about how much work it is to teach all those
> kids. The kids are apparently not doing anything (except
> occasionally making the parent's hard job even harder).
>
> (Maybe I'm missing your point to, but some of these phrases point in
> all kinds of directions. <g>
>
> Sandra
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