self-help
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In a message dated 5/13/2002 10:57:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
libraries/bookstores at about thirty years old. Let's say they're in school
for 12/13 years (add more for preschool, day care, etc.), then college for
4/5 and maybe graduate school of some sort---then add all those years up.
Tack on the year or three after "graduation" when they STILL believe that
school's good for you. I'm guessing that with the one month per year of
"education" of deschooling necessary, thirty is about the right age for
people to start looking for "something"---happiness or peace or their
"souls".
My mother-in-law said that she just wanted her children to be happy adults.
Seems to me that the best path there is to have happy childhoods. My goal is
happy childhoods for my children. I think the happy adulthood will follow.
Kelly
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[email protected] writes:
> Have you seen all the self-help books out there these days, for ADULTS,It seems that people start hanging out at the self-help section of the
> about
> how to be happy? Happiness is apparently not all that easy and not all that
>
> common. I WONDER if maybe that's because it wasn't encouraged in people
> when
> they were children.
>
>
libraries/bookstores at about thirty years old. Let's say they're in school
for 12/13 years (add more for preschool, day care, etc.), then college for
4/5 and maybe graduate school of some sort---then add all those years up.
Tack on the year or three after "graduation" when they STILL believe that
school's good for you. I'm guessing that with the one month per year of
"education" of deschooling necessary, thirty is about the right age for
people to start looking for "something"---happiness or peace or their
"souls".
My mother-in-law said that she just wanted her children to be happy adults.
Seems to me that the best path there is to have happy childhoods. My goal is
happy childhoods for my children. I think the happy adulthood will follow.
Kelly
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