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WHATEVER you spend on other gifts this koli- day season, remember the best gift you can give a child is self- seliance: a year-round gift which will last a lifetime.

That's what Anne Koeyers brought home to us when we visited her earlier this year at

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Drysdale River Station, a mil- lion-acre, working cattle sta- tion with tourist facilities she runs with her husband in the remote Kimberley outback region of northwestern Australia.

“Our kids, Paul, now 17, Joanna, 15, and Lisa, 11, have been brought up being rewarded for what they do, not being given endless hand- outs,” said the former bar- maid,

“When they have earned something, they respect it more. When they have done well, they get lots of praise and when they do wrong they pay for it usually by not getting

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‘We have capected them to be responsible for their actions, either in work oc in dealing with other people and their feelings.”

Koeyers was about to send Joanna to live with Koeyers* brother and family in Canberra (the capital of Australia) to attend Grades 11 and 12.

Said Koevers, “we are 360 km — six to eight hours’ drive — from the nearest school, and correspondence school is very hard to do at the higher levels.”

She wasn't worried about how Joanna would cope with civilization.

“When you live out here, with no phones for sti etches of 100 to 200 km, if vou get bogged you get y yourself out

even if it takcs two days which was our record bog,” she said.

“Growing up with all this, before we had ewo-way radios in the vehicles, taught the kids self-reliance and patience. It is totally useless throwing a

tantrum or offering to pay someone to do something for you. There is no one to hear you jump up and down and no one to help you. “This creates a willingness to put up with things going wrong and the frus- tration and discom- fort that can come with it all. And that akes kids generally better able to handle anything without complaint.” What about the financial temptations of life in the big city? “Working with us here at Drysdale, Joanna sees what is required to carn money,” Koeyers said. “She is very

can’t afford it, you go without.’ I'm sure she won't get sucked into the ‘roust have, keep up

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