Bad taste is in the mind QUESTION: I just had to write to tell you the advice re. “The best gifts for children” was in bad taste... You say there are three items vital for children, being loved and touched and feeling their home is a safe place. How can they possibly have those things if the parents “encourage their freedom to doubt" and if they are trained, as you say, to swallow everything the Know 1. 'm for free enterprise and hate ANY regulations being laid on me. We've got too many already. 2.1 hate stupid com- mericals. Isn't there a way to demand they make some sense? How about this one? “Northing else is a Volkswagen'' Dumb! Nothing else is a Honda either. Nothing else is a banana. parents say. Would it not be it to the test. appropriate to use the Bible -as a firm and reliable guide? STEWART:This letter, which (Ephesians 6:1-4) . Being a 1 had to shorten some, is parent of two young girls, 1 concerned with a column realize they look to us for pmnted last September. honest reliable answers. To It seems to me the writer ts give them less would betray = not in as much need to point a trust. to my comments being “in We are not raising bad taste” as she is in need of zombies but thinking human == trusung more courageously beings, who, because they what she herself has so were made intelligent, (I wisely observed. She says, John 5:20) will not swallow “We are not raising zombies. everything we say, hook, but thinking human beings line and sinker, but will put =... who will not swallow Freetunce Counsellor Hayden Stewart may be reached at 261-0242 rorappomiments forindividual family or group counselling your beef STEWART: As beefs) go. them bug me too. Don't tell Tm ready to let yours go. me you would be willing to regulate them a little! 1. Noregulations atall? How Perhaps, under the cir- would you like to drive a car cumstances you could set in New York — or even aside your loathing of Vancouver, with no regulations enough to regulations at all? No traffic declare, “You must not say, lights? You would hate it. up in a commercial, ‘Nothing to the time you were killed. else is a Volkswagen” (1 Some regulations help. wonder if Volkswagen will give me a new carfor that 2. Commercials: Some of publicity”) WE’VE ADDED A NEW STORE E IN BELLINGHAM! (Ub bvasty etbeota cabo oe pay Ptie toe vratitaal seolnet Salsa daa me wadla Liasman 15 % OF FY S255 AuOst 3200.00 on ernth bearrrre tf VN TEL orbitss ernie wtb Ope re Sotie Tes wot A ee ee wotts that SOLID OAK FACTORY he eC 9396 0428 [tbe Seti) Cou hk Boge teat cel thpatatba t coluatdatara, Care aby ans. T)ee pehe abet Sse ett de atte Pres Prastooepre treed oa tre woos tear) any Pee decry tip Wee te thre haste st poets try ottietrcaheae bvabe nt cated tetyathe tr at cote d sabe feat scitvate str thaw boae tae ON ta et Wood difee tev detoriate thie pre rr ty Porat gt tye Wyte ote bay ofberiutip RAINIER Site WALL UNITS bak deamcan Labeda kde Madde Lia dismute em Sobre ee wood Lovrenprpoe cb | de ve od Loe be db cows yp Poca tate Povvte rlsaaevtare cab © etter € vat der © Tease t thighh ws CVpre rn Le an an a 27O 71206 ida wns (oo) parents. habit of doubting everything C7 - Wednesday, January 26, 1983 - North Shore News everything we say ... but will put it to the test.” All | asked for in my column was the gift, from the parents to the kids, that would allow them, and, indeed. encourage them to sense that it is O.K. for them to think things through as intelligent human beings and not to swallow everything hook, line and sinker. I would not ask for the kids to be encouraged to doubt and trained to doubt. What | want for them 1s the freedom to doubt and to the risk of being belittled or punished or stifled by the -1nto the can lead into a destructively cynical way of life. I don't wish that on any child. However. becoming sure that one is free to question without a fear of | being reprimanded, can lead to an immeasurably valuable way of life that does not develop zombies, but rather, thinking human beings who are not afraid to “put it to the Se Ss ES Soccer test. oN pasate 3 TIME OFFER *100 DISCOUNT ON ANY FREE HEAT MACHINE HURRY! LAST WEEK The hottest fireplace heat extractor on the market today XS FREE HEAT