Luz Shosie and Ned Vare

on 8/16/02 9:17 PM, [email protected] at
[email protected] wrote:

>
> Message: 22
> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 00:31:08 -0000
> From: "kenyonbook" <kenyonbook@...>
> Subject: RE. socialization
>
> Thanks for all your insight regarding my children who do not have
> much contact with other children.... The funny thing is, my
> children (and I) are perfectly happy this way, playing with cousins
> once or twice a month, and that's it.... However, *everyone* keeps
> telling me, and I have even seen it here on this list, that I should
> make sure my children have plently of contact with other kids. So,
> of course, I start to wonder if I am harming my children in some
> way! They have each other and thier pen-pals and e-mail pals and
> they read and play for hours on end with each other, wander through
> the fields, play with animals, etc.
> I, personally, don't see close friends or even family even once a
> week but have pen-pals and e-mail friends and love getting together
> with my sisters and mom once or twice a month. In general, we are
> homebodies, and happiest at home.
> Mary from IA
>

Mary, Your thing sounds fine to me. I didn't mean to imply otherwise.

My posts about a kid needing a friend, a peer, is intended for kids who are
isolated from others their age. I believe it is important for children to
relate to each other.

Ned Vare