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Alpglo-You just gave me an idea for something I may be able to do on my own during college and medical school...........tying in with my earlier statements on this thread regarding obesity......
(Skaterbabe will like this one
😉 ) My idea is to set up free ballet lessons for underprivileged children, preferably from the inner city or rural areas. This will:
1. Satisfy my craving for something outside of academics and single-minded medicine.
2. Give children who normally wouldn't have it some exposure to something classically artistic instead of just academics or sports (I truly believe that the arts and culture are VERY important)
3. Help combat obesity and promote health and a good body image (must be careful to combat the anorexic tendencies that used to go with ballet, although awareness has increased so much lately that this hopefully won't be much of a problem.
Granted, this is very simplistic and I would need to deal with the logistics of it (this is where my business training comes in)-I just thought of it now, but what do you all think? This is something I would LOVE to do!
And I will leave you all now with an email I received today. Normally I hate forwards, but this one is SO good and I think all of you, especially the older non-trads, will get a huge kick out of it!
>>Believe We Made It !!
>>
>>According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us >>who were kids in the 20's, 30', 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's or even the
>>early 80's, probably shouldn't have survived.
>>
>>Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint.
>>
>>We had no childproof lids or locks on medicine bottles, doors, or
>>
>>cabinets, and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets.
>>
>>Not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking ...
>>
>>As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
>>
>>Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a
>>special treat.
>>
>>We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors!
>>
>>We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in
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>>it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside
>>playing.
>>
>>We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no
>>one actually died from this.
>>
>>We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then
>>rode down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After
>>running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the
>>problem.
>>
>>
>>
>>We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we
>>were back when the street lights came on. No one was able to reach
>>us all day. No cell phones. Unthinkable!
>>
>>We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games
>>at all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound,
>>personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.
>>
>>We had friends! We went outside and found them.
>>
>>We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt.
>>
>>We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there
>>were no lawsuits from these accidents .. They were accidents. No
>>one was to blame but us. Remember accidents?
>>
>>We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and
>>learned to get over it.
>>
>>We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were
>>told it would happen , we did not put out any eyes.
>>
>>We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door,
>>or rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them.
>>
>>Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team .. Those
>>who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.
>>
>>Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade
>>and
>>
>>were held back to repeat the same grade.
>>
>>Horrors!
>>
>>Tests were not adjusted for any reason.
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>>Our actions were our own.
>>
>>Consequences were expected.
>>
>>The idea of parents bailing us out if we got in trouble in school
>>or broke a law was unheard of.
>>
>>They actually sided with the school....... Imagine that!
>>
>>This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem
>>
>>solvers, and inventors, ever.
>>
>>We had freedom, failure, success, and
>>
>>responsibility --- and we learned how to deal with it.
>>
>>And you're one of them!
>>
>>Congratulations.
>>
>>Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as
>>kids before lawyers and government regulated our lives for our own
>>good !!!
