This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 8/6/99 4:44:34 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I myself don't think that the teenagers of today are any weaker than they were 50 or 100 years ago. >> Amen! I read the line about "soft" teenagers and laughed! Thinking of my nephew. 15 years old, and out there after school and weekends, working like a man. He takes after his father, and my father. Loves the sea. His favorite Christmas presents are fishing rods. He works on a boat that takes weekend fishermen out, helps them fish, and cleans up after them. His description of cleaning up after a barricuda fishing day is priceless!!! Then he does his roller hockey thing (and he's quite good). Helps maintain the house. A good kid. Strong. Oh my, and so many others that I know. Though I work with Special Needs kids, I do get out into the rest of the world and see strength, kindness abounding with today's youth. Especially the young horsepeople (who by the way have fallen in love with fjords after seeing Juniper!). And if you want to see strong fjords, drop by Lisa Pedersen's!!!! She has SHAMED me! Those horses are fit, healthy, happy. I SWEAR one of them smiled at me! <g>. And her workout regime.... sigh..... I came home, looked at my horses and told them the party was over! Pamela
