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Why Home Doesn't Matter
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| May 2007
| Judith Rich Harris
Posted on 09/29/2007 9:53:22 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam
Why Home Doesn't Matter Translation: Therefore, the State can take over the training (aka indoctrination) - the parents will legally be only caretakers: feed, cloth and house. But never forget, they belong to the State. (Have they been talking to Hillary)
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posted on
09/29/2007 11:32:13 AM PDT
by
maine-iac7
("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" LINCOLN)
To: Cvengr
Wily was doing that research, he apparently didn’t consider the ramifications. Sorry, your highness.
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posted on
09/29/2007 11:33:19 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Profile updated Wednesday, September 27, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: Smokin' Joe
Then, too, some folks just ain't wired right...Got that right...and if they don't receive the right nurturing to counteract it, they grow up to be liberal Socialists...
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posted on
09/29/2007 11:34:01 AM PDT
by
maine-iac7
("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" LINCOLN)
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
09/29/2007 11:35:21 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: RightWhale
the first Christian, Alexander the Great
that's difficult to prove.
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posted on
09/29/2007 11:36:52 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Swordmaker
There's a song in one of the Gilbert & Sullivan comic operas that goes something like:
"Every boy and every girl,
Who's born into the world alive,
Is either a little Liberal,
Or else a little Conservative."
To: SunkenCiv
Was Thomas Aquinas a twin? I recall hearing that he had a sister, who was killed by a bolt of lightning that struck the bed they were both sleeping in as young children...but don’t recall if she was his twin.
To: Verginius Rufus
Dunno, but I think one was a liberal, the other a conservative. :’)
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09/29/2007 11:51:14 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: blam
I read an older hardcover version my grandfather had (I wish I knew what happened to that book!)--for pleasure. He was a fan of Mark Twain and Connan Doyle, and passed that on.
The dialect presented no problems, Southern Maryland at the time was rife with dialect, from Gullah to E'rstn Shurman(Eastern Shoreman), and many folks spoke with a distinct Southern accent.
Television and Yankee invasion/condescension have done much change that.
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posted on
09/29/2007 11:53:41 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: blam
But this is a mistake: parents influence their children mainly by passing on their genes. The biggest environmental influences on personality are those that occur outside the home Most of the comments have addressed the first sentence here rather than the second. The second sentence is only true to the extent that parents give their children over to society rather than take responsibility for them themselves.
Home school bump!
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posted on
09/29/2007 12:38:46 PM PDT
by
AZLiberty
(President Fred -- I like the sound of it.)
To: blam
I have one quibble with this and that is language. I have been around many immigrant households from non-English backgrounds, most Vietnamese, some not. Uniformly, those families that insist that only English be used in the household, even thought the parents do not speak it well, produce children with heavy accents in English. Those families that speak only their native language at home produce children who speak both languages without accent, or rather, with the accents of, respectively, their parents in their native language and their peers in English.
It is not that the author is "wrong" but I think he overlooked that difference.
Aside for personal aesthetics: Girls who retain a bit of a Vietnamese accent in English have one of the most pleasing sounds in the language.
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posted on
09/29/2007 2:05:54 PM PDT
by
ThanhPhero
(di hanh huong den La Vang)
To: blam
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posted on
09/29/2007 3:38:53 PM PDT
by
Kevmo
(We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
To: ThanhPhero
"Those families that speak only their native language at home produce children who speak both languages without accent, or rather, with the accents of, respectively, their parents in their native language and their peers in English." My son's best friend and Best Man (wedding) was a Vietnamese guy, Hue Nguyen. I agree with you about the accent. His parents were 'boat people' in the mid 70's.
Great family. All the kids in that family excelled.
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posted on
09/29/2007 4:00:24 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam
In the community here I know people who got out at the last minute in 75 and more who came out in the first wave in the late 70s and others who came out in the second wave in the 80s. Typical is Lien, then 14, whose last memory of Viet Nam is of climbing a cargo net up the side of a freighter in the Sai Gon River with her 3 year old cousin on her back after watching her aunt get crushed between the hull and the dock. It is hard to imagine that kind of desperation with the world collapsing around you.
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posted on
09/29/2007 4:11:15 PM PDT
by
ThanhPhero
(di hanh huong den La Vang)
To: Verginius Rufus
"Every boy and every girl,
Who's born into the world alive,
Is either a little Liberal,
Or else a little Conservative." Since Liberals are much more supportive of abortions, it shouldn't be too long until the Conservatives are born far more often...
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posted on
09/29/2007 4:25:00 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE)
To: Old Professer
I wonder if any twin studies to determine difference between pairs of siblings based on vaginal vs cesarian birth? Perinatal memories of womb/birth trauma?
To: SunkenCiv; RightWhale
And, the first Christian, Alexander the Great.
that's difficult to prove.
Alexander the Great (356 BC 323 BC)?
Not only would that be difficult to prove, me thinks that would be down right impossible.
RightWhale were you thinking of Constantine I (c. 280 337 AD) the first Christian Roman Emperor?
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posted on
09/30/2007 4:36:14 AM PDT
by
Caramelgal
(Rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words or superficial interpretations)
To: blam
You know, this is pretty obvious. If you send your children out of the home and away from their parents for most of their waking hours, and then the children sit in front of a TV or computer screen while they are in the home, the parents are not going to be the major influence. This is a big D U H!
But how about home-schooled children that are with at least one loving parent almost all of the time? What if the source of information going into their pea brains is from parents and older siblings, instead of public school teenage sex maniacs and teachers in their 20s who, morally are trained by the humanists in the university systems? What about the children in homes where the HOME has always mattered and still does?
To: Caramelgal
Even Constantine would be wrong as he was clearly not the FIRST to believe in Christ.
I’m thinking there’s some kind of ‘interpretation’ of Alexander that leads RW to believe he was the first Christian (which would mean, to me, that he was the FIRST person to experience/believe in Christ.)
OF course, I have heard that Jesus is a synthesized retelling of Alexander the Great or Elijah. So who knows what RW means.
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posted on
09/30/2007 4:58:52 AM PDT
by
Skywalk
(Transdimensional Jihad!)
To: ninonitti
My sister was a breech birth - they ended up using tongs and manipulation.
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posted on
09/30/2007 8:02:14 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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