Reply #12: That would make all my kids echos, and NONE of them fit that [View All]

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stereotype.

But, I did things to make sure they didn't grow up that way. During the Reagan years, when whole families -- mothers kids babies and all -- were forced homeless into the streets od Boston, I would take them with me when we went in to pass out blankets and food to them on the coldest nights, even holiday eves. I wanted them to see those poor people huddled over the subway grates in Government Center for the gusts of warm air as the trains went by below. I even took them to help out when we cooked in the shelters for those homeless, even on holidays. They would help dishing out food or peeling vegetables. Parents should never allow their kids who have been given the gift of relative comfort to ever become "comfortable", or forget there are those worse off than they are. I have to say that each applied the lessons taught in a politically different way, but none of them, to this day is callous about poverty, not even the ones who are not Democrats.

Parents just have to be less lazy about getting their kids involved if they don't want "echos" of their own. (or whatever they're called when they grow up.)

TC