Comments for sursumcorda.salemsattic.com/post/on-raising-boys...and-girls

Comment #1685

2008-06-03T12:39:29Z

Does your car have a headphone jack? ;-)

Comment #1684

2008-06-03T09:59:24Z

And French! I want practice in French! Though at my current vocabulary level that would hardly get us from St. Augustine to Jacksonville....

Comment #1683

2008-06-03T06:58:09Z

To all my dear ones, Not to worry. Mom and Stephan will get along just fine and there is plenty of time to sit and digest what the other has said while waiting for the upset feelings to settle down and formulate a response. Mom and I can practice thinking more before speaking knowing that our audience is captive. Stephan can learn patience for our endurance for long discussions. ;) Stephan, you can always switch to teaching us German which is guaranteed to tone down the conversation and still be appreciated. ;)

Comment #1682

2008-06-03T01:45:29Z

Illegal in some states, but not uncommon.

Comment #1681

2008-06-03T00:45:05Z

That made me chuckle, though I suspect I'll be doing a fair bit of the driving, which would make it hard (illegal?) to read the messages...

Comment #1680

2008-06-03T00:31:59Z

Comment #1679

2008-06-02T21:34:23Z

Maybe Stephan can talk, and you can pass letters to the back seat. (or text message...)

Comment #1678

2008-06-02T16:37:09Z

We can try, though I'm better at written communication and have had more bad experiences face-to-face. Perhaps face-to-back-of-head will work better. :)

Comment #1677

2008-06-02T14:40:48Z

...that said, I do agree that the bulletin excerpt is lacking, if only because it doesn't say what it means with "appreciation for her as a woman." Does being a woman alone merit appreciation? Does being a man not merit appreciation? Or are they omitting a similar set of characteristics as what they list for boys because they take it for granted in women? (That would seem foolish.) What makes a woman? The excerpt doesn't address that and thus empties its exhortation to fathers of most its meaning.

Comment #1676

2008-06-02T14:36:04Z

Can we save this one for the drive north in July? I have had bad experiences with discussing these sort of topics via e-mail or other written media.