boyscouts ... not for my child
- Thread starter man
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thnx for a very good post. i took the above sentence as
a quote because it perfectly illustrates where we differ.
i see in my child how intensely different information
shapes her mental landscape. recently she was with her
mami on an environmental exhibition and now she is
fond of trains and explains to everybody why it is better
to go by train then instead in each car only one or max
two people drive the same way. she really connects to
the topic on a from my perspective deep level.
now, and here comes the point, if i tell her that the best
human interaction happens in military context, i am
telling her something ... wrong. and this "wrong" is
where the two of us will probably not agree ...
when i was twelve or so i spend a summer building rafts
of big strunks. being out whole day, having a fire in the
evening with potatoes beneath. and it was absolute nono
to use paper for the fire, no matter if it was rainy.
great time. completely on our own. about four or five of
us. would not want to miss that experience. funny, i do
not have many precise memories of certain events, but
the overall smell and feeling is very present.
for questions of this kind there are normally two answers,
one way or the other. sometimes there is a third one,
like i think with yours: the question itself contains an
"error". you seem to imply that i either let her go the
scouts or i most likely will face her having an abortion
with twelve. i do not know where you live, but in my
world there are some other options.
oh, absolutely not. as i tried to point out earlier there
are absolute marvellous things about the organisation.
no doubt. seriously. i just can't live with exposing little
children to military-like settings. and to me uniforms
(dresscodes similar to military uniform if you will), badges,
ranks fall into that ...