in article , Mary Fisher at
wrote on 31/5/03 9:03 am:




"Sacha" wrote in message
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in article , Mary Fisher at
wrote on 30/5/03 6:14 pm:

"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Essjay001" writes:
| Nick Maclaren wrote:
| Very few are allergic to bees.
|
| Maybe, but not pain.

It is not a parent's job to prevent children having a full range
of normal experiences. I do not hold with the way that I was
treated (e.g. "Pain is good for you - it develops character"),
but isolating children from pain entirely is equally bad for
them.

It's not only bad, it's impossible.

Mary

What? To make them wear shoes when running across a lawn? No it most
certainly is not. NOT if you think they might be stung and that is
avoidable. Not all children are allergic, some are. Some people
(children
included), like me, become more allergic the more they are stung. Think
about it. I can no more imagine watching our grand daughter run into
possible harm than fly to the moon.

What he said, and what I agred with - and still agree with - was:

"isolating children from pain entirely is equally bad for them."

But nobody was suggesting that. Keeping a child from being stung is common
sense.

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