Reply #71: I agree, Bouncy Ball! [View All]

[Dorian Gray]

When I taught, I would sometimes correct using other colors, but it had nothing to do with the childrens' self-esteem. I just enjoyed color, and I would use a variety of pens.

But, if we used lavender regularly, then THAT color, in a generation, would be offensive to the children's self-esteem. The little league without score keeping?

We can not protect our children's feelings forever. We have to allow them to fall down in this world. We coddle them for too long, and they believe that the world revolves around them.

I recently had a friend visit, and she still breast feeds her 2 and her 4 1/2 year old children. She does so because she feels that they should not feel any stress. They should decide when they are ready to not be breast fed anymore. This world is filled with stress. We need to learn, and the only thing constant coddling will do is to reinforce the idea that the world revolves around us. It's a dangerous precedent to make for our children.

(This is all my opinion, of course.)