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In a message dated 2/15/03 12:42:50 PM, pamhartley@... writes:

<< Then they came to me, I think about 18 months or so ago (maybe a little
longer) and said, "Can we buy some pajamas?" <g>
>>

Okay, now *I* want to know where they got that idea.
Was it watching TV?

Did you have to BUY your children something just because they saw it on TV?

AND... here you raised your children the way you thought was right, only to
have them see some fictional TV thing, and they want to be like THOSE people
instead of like you?

Pajamas.

Next they'll want UZIs.

Holly has been watching Cyndi Lauper videos (Twelve Deadly Cyns, DVD with
commentary--I highly recommend it) and wants to be and dress more like Cyndo
Lauper than she already inadvertently was doing.

I offered to look up lyrics for one of the songs online for her, and print
them out. She said "No, that's okay," reached over and changed the settings
to have subtitles, and started singing right along. OVER and over and over.

I don't mind. And on one song Ms. Lauper plays recorder, so now Holly thinks
my recorder playing is cooler. And maybe, who knows, Holly will make her
living by being a Cyndi Lauper impersonator when she grows up, and those
hours spent singing along and memorizing the dance steps on the videos is
more important to her than a chemistry class to a pharmacist.

Yesterday Holly was asking me what pharmacists do. I told her, and told her
that not long ago they were required to study Latin and doctors and
pharmacists communicated by secret and universal "code," but now they pretty
much only dispense pre-made medicines from factories and advise on side
effect. And that comes off the computer. So anyone want to defend the
current educational requirements for dispensing pharmacists??


Sandra