Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Digest Number 2934
Pam Hartley
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training students to talk to their dogs in calm, gentle voices in day to day
life -- in those emergency situations where they actually yelled at their
dogs, their dogs would stop in their tracks.
Pam, mammal whisperer <g>
>From: [email protected]Could not agree more. In fact, this is exactly why I told all my dog
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Digest Number 2934
>Date: Sun, Jan 26, 2003, 1:12 PM
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> Here's my take on this: In the hypothetical situation you've thrown out
> here, If a kid grows to be used to hearing his mom talk to him sweetly and
> with respect (but "Honey, no" is kind of weird, if you ask me) all the
> time, and the day he or she runs out into the street and that mom shrieks
> out in a most un-mom-like voice, "NO! GET BACK HERE!" that kid's gonna
> stop right in his/her tracks! If only because that kid's gonna wonder
> what's up with mom!
training students to talk to their dogs in calm, gentle voices in day to day
life -- in those emergency situations where they actually yelled at their
dogs, their dogs would stop in their tracks.
Pam, mammal whisperer <g>