Re: Suitable role models?
 

Luckily I met her before I ever heard her on the radio, she didn't sound so dreadful in person so I think she piles it on for the meejah.

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I read "Reach for the Sky" when I was in Jr. High; he was quite the survivor all right.

Re: Suitable role models?
 

For the boys

Gyles Brandreth
Aled Jones
The Green Cross Code Man
Dick van Dyke
Alf Tupper


For the girls

Lorraine Kelly
Sister Wendy
Audrey fforbes-Hamilton
Julie Andrews
Fatima Whitbread

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I love Dick Van Dyke he's great.

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Madonna.

Alf Tupper was my hero, he won't do for this generation.

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Because of his accent?


Oh no, that just grates...

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How about parents and grandparents who have moral and ethical values that include tolerance, acceptance, love, and the ability show compassioon for those less fortunate. These traits, if passed down to their kids, will make them wonderful caring and nurturing adults.

My role models are my parents and grandparents, both sets who immigrated to canada with next-to-nothing, had a fabulous work and moral ethics and became valuable members of society. Once they became canadians they never looked back.

I hope that jim and I are passing on the same values to our two small kids.

Why would any parent want someone else to be a role model for their kids. This is something that the parents should be teaching their kids everyday.

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Bez, of course.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...ez_pa_226b.jpg

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You're absolutely right, of course. Sadly lots of children don't have good role models in their parents, and boys are especially lacking in male role models it seems. I also think it is valuable for children to have heroes that are not their parents.

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Just thought of another one - Paul Watson. And he's Canadian.

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Because the children do not have parents and grandparents who have moral and ethical values that include tolerance, acceptance, love, and the ability show compassioon for those less fortunate. Neither do the parents particularly value these traits. The people I have suggested display characteristics, such as single minded brutality in the pursuit of their goals, that I think would better serve my children than the defining characteristics of their parents.

<wonders who Paul Watson is, supposes that's because he's Canadian>

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Ahhh, DBD and you a tree-hugger? Here he is: http://www.seashepherd.org/crew-watson.html

I did think he was an Australian for ages until I heard him speaking, and then (shamefully) I thought he was a Yank for a while.

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Shane MacGowan?

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Oh God, I do know who he is. Nasty facist fellow, he needs harpooning.

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Not having kids, I think it would be great if parents brought up their daughters to look like sexy French newsreaders. It'd make the world a much more cheerful place.