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The INDEPENDENT, February 6, 2002
tetters to Ihn Editor
From page 3
about the inability of human
mothers to follow nature’s law
and to wean their young, as do
other species. My letter/article
was about the lack of strin
gency in education which does
not encourage young people to
accept the consequences of
their actions/work. The “sensi
tive” children I was speaking of
are not those who have been
fortunate enough to have had
loving parents, but rather those
who have not been encouraged
to accept responsibility.
I am afraid that, although
Mrs. Janac shouldn’t make as
sumptions about my upbring
ing, I was indeed encouraged
to be independent at an early
age. I am, however, forever in
debted to my Mother, the strin
gency of w hose sm all-tow n
South Dakota youth made her
recognize that grow ing up
abroad, with servants, was un
likely to prepare us for the real
world. From about the age of
eleven on, she made sure that
no one else should do our inti
mate laundry, that the responsi
bility for cleaning our rooms
was ours alone, and that by
turns, my siblings and I cooked
the fam ily dinners on the cook's
night out. We are all good
cooks, even my brothers, and
since I have been able to make
my living in more than one
pinch by cooking, as I said, I
am thankful.
I fear that the polemic on
child raising is at least a hun
dred years old, and having not
raised children myself, it is not
my place to judge Mrs. Janac’s
techniques. I do wonder, how
ever, at the efficacy of a
method which has 30 and 40
year old “children” looking to
their mothers for “protection.”
We might consider the wis
dom of [Khalil] Gibran’s immor
tal words on children:
“Your children are not your
children...
They come through you...
yet they belong not to you...
You are the bows from which
your children as living arrows
are sent forth...
Let your bending in the
A rche r’s hand be for glad
ness...”
Sincerely,
Carol Sawyer
Vernonia
To learn from error is
reasonable
To the Editor:
No one can now doubt that
the event commemorated by
Old No. 20 is regrettable in the
history of both our municipality
and our nation. The mere fact
of Old No. 20’s publication is far
less regrettable. But, its regret
fu ln e ss is ju s t as ce rta in and
Please see page 13
Obtuseness knows not the
shame of its own ignorance.
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