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From: Neil Sklar <rp_mcmurphy>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 07:15:32 -0400
You and I may already know that, but many kids do not. Or rather, sometimes they think that good SHOULD always prevail, and that when it doesn't, something is out of joint. From the time they can understand language, they are bombarded with stories in all sorts of mediums (from The Frog Prince to Pokemon) in which good prevails, the ending is happy and hopeful. But life just doesn't work that way. Giving kids only literature in which the problems get solved doesn't equip them to deal with real-life situations in which the problem is sometimes not solved, or is not realistically solvable.
Neil
Received on Tue 28 Aug 2001 06:15:32 AM CDT
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 07:15:32 -0400
You and I may already know that, but many kids do not. Or rather, sometimes they think that good SHOULD always prevail, and that when it doesn't, something is out of joint. From the time they can understand language, they are bombarded with stories in all sorts of mediums (from The Frog Prince to Pokemon) in which good prevails, the ending is happy and hopeful. But life just doesn't work that way. Giving kids only literature in which the problems get solved doesn't equip them to deal with real-life situations in which the problem is sometimes not solved, or is not realistically solvable.
Neil
Received on Tue 28 Aug 2001 06:15:32 AM CDT
