European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 07, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes dear. Send kids of Camp Ann Landers Fem to if you hurry you parents still have time to put your kids through intensive pre summer training. It s your responsibility to teach the children How to handle summer. Thoj Aren t Good at it. They need guidance. If you think about it you la realize that sum Mer is harder to manage than Winter. Winter has built in suffering order deprivation and Challenge. Summer does t. Two weeks into summer vacation children arc Glassy eyed sluggish inert worthless and hedonistic. And no wonder. Imagine How quickly you would slide into Slobom if you did t have to show up for work All summer. As one Friend said Chil Dren rest they Don t need two months to recover from anything. Now the typical parental summer program is to sign up the children for something. You Send them to Camp or put them in Art classes or let them take swimming lessons. That s ridiculous. Such programs arc expensive frivolous and even cruel. What you arc doing is depriving the children of the right to make them selves useful. You Are also giving them an unrealistic View of life. And finally by giving them such a fun summer you Are leaching them to hate school. School always compares unfavourably to horseback Riding and sleeping until noon. What you should do is Supply the kids with some solid Drudgery. Then come september the kids will be elated to Back in school so they can revel in calculus or Chaucer. The summer program should be Lough not cruel just Lough. Nearly every minute of the children s Day should be tilled with a Light Little round of unpleasant chores that the parents usually do but the kids Are perfectly capable of doing for example every child from age five to 20 can stack a dishwasher dust clean the bathrooms straighten Kitchen drawers empty trashcans. Arrange the magazines on the Coffee table water the plants and tend to the dog. Every child Over the age of nine can Cook some supper do some mending shop for groceries put them away Wash the clothes put them away mow the Lawn prune the Bushes and scrub the Woodwork. Every kid Over age 16 can run errands Wash windows paint the trim on the House or build a Patio. In other words there is no reason Why parents should do a single thing around the House while the Chil Dren Are on vacation. Spread the vacation around. Let the parents have some. The schedule should be tight. Pul the Chil Dren on the same schedule they had in the Winter. They can Start work at 8 30 in the morning take an hour for lunch and go Back to work until 3 00, at which time they May go to the Pool walk to the drug store for a nutty buddy drop bricks on bees play Tennis or do any of those things that make summer feel like summer. My program has financial and moral Bene fits for All concerned. Children learn to do what they should have been doing All along. The family saves Money previously spent on outside help to do what the children could have been doing As Well As saving on Gas for the car lessons and fancy equipment. Since the kids won t be going anywhere or doing anything they won t need cute Tennis outfits rackets Golf clubs leotards or sweatbands. After Alt you can Wear any old sorry rags when you clean the House As women have been forced to do for years. In addition the kids will learn wonderful Home management skills. Then if they flunk out of College it won t matter. The problem of salary May come up. R"enlb5r you Don t have to pay them anything. My kids did t pay me when i painted the living room yellow. They did t pay dear old dad when he put bark chips around the Bushes and did the vacuuming the children won t need any Money anyway. They la be too exhausted to spend " my plan is excellent. Grownups will get some rest and Young people will get As much rest As they deserve. The Job Market will open up under 20 Aren t trying to take the Job that a 25-year-old who s still mooching off the folks should have. And those terrible fast food restaurants May vanish. The nation s teen agers will be at Home serving their families Well balanced meals selected from the four food groups instead of working at Burger Hea Ven and serving total strangers empty calories. It s a fool proof system nutritionally morally economically educationally and ecologically sound. I dare you to do it. Dear Ann Landers my 56 year old husband has gotten a 25 year old woman pregnant. She is not married and never has been. We have two Tine sons both grown and on their own. Bob says he loves me and does not want a divorce. Mean while he continues to see this other woman which kills me be cause she is the Mother of his the situation is becoming intolerable. The Only reason i Don t ask him to leave is because i love him dearly. 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The wild varieties Are covered with glandular hairs that secrete a Sticky substance trap Ping Small insects rash enough to land on the plants mortally poisoning pests in As Little As 20 minutes or merely paralysing them. The built in resistance is inexpensive environmentally Safe and compatible with any other methods of control the Farmer May use Kennedy said adding that the Days of the to Mato fruit worm the tobacco Horn worm and the Colorado potato Beetle May be numbered. We know we can incorporate the resistance into Domestic Tomato types Kenedy said. Now we need to find just the right concentration of chemicals to move into an improved Type of etch if inc web would allow to to take tace Hascy it a Best that Yon not do so. To cuu wild be wimm i Pooree of ambivalence and Troy me As Wen As permanent Fiok to accept Ott fact that tar Osband b going to in Tom to see her. After the cuu la Kerne probably win see her Quentlyn. I Brt cym to Petcos Jusell of scarce Ostl frequently a Bow. Yoa met it strength and Emot Fen or. To ice to through to turbulent Day and perk Yean ahead. Dear Ann Landers a Whitback you expressed your views on Gay rights. I am a reformed homosexual and i know the mis Ery of such a life. Thanks Totime a ton of prayer and the Grace of god i am Over Iti do not agree with you that homosexuals should be allowed to teach school. If their own lives Are so messed up i Don t believe they Are qualified to work with what i really wanted to say is this i jumped for Joy when read your closing line i stand by my statements. All of , too Many people have no convictions about anything. Itis terrific to have someone stand firm in a world where there is a awful lot of sitting. Happy in Kalamazoo dear Kak thanks for those kind words especially Gener Ous since we disagree. Please consider the fact out Many heterosexuals also hate Lutes that Are messed up yet the relate Well to children and Art excellent teachers. Homos Saab to is not contagious. So Agata i say i stand by my statements All of them. Dear Ann Landers i am student who has been in this country four years. Soon will be leaving for Home and wanted to let you know Bow much you have helped me. I Learned not Only about the English language from you but about human writing is one of the things i will miss most when leave the United states. A foreign Friend dear Fri two sorry you
