--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nice post. I am digging the parental wisdom coming out today. > > bwaytheatrediva writes: > Hi everyone. I'm 23 years old and I've lived in FF my whole life. I > have a huge amount of bitterness/hatred toward the TMO. It was shoved > down my throat from literally the moment I was born. MSAE was a kind > of hell that I wouldn't wish on anyone. A lot of the people I love > most are in the TMO. I always say I hate the cult, but I dearly love > some of the people in it. Anyway, that's my intro. I look forward to > talking with you. > > TomT: > I am a 66 year old senior who has been with the TMO for 35 years. I > have 2 kids who are 40 and 44. When they were young my former wife > and I took them out of one of the best school systems available and > put them into a new hippy open free school which we paid tuition on > top of our very high school taxes. We thought we were doing the right > thing in giving them a more unstructured experience where their > creativity would blossom. On the one hand my 44 year old daughter did > marvelously and ended up as a very talented graphic artist. On the > other hand my 40 year son ended up lost in that loose and artsy > environment. When we put him back into public school he was formally > labeled ADD and the system spent the next 8 years of his schooling > making up for the fact that he was lost and was unable to function at > anything near his age level. Bottom line we thought we were doing the > right thing. Who can ultimately say whether it was good bad or > indifferent. As Byron Katie has said, the reason I know it is perfect > is because that is the way it went down. If it was meant to be > different it would have been. Get some distance,get out of Dodge and > see how your life unfolds. >
