WHoops

I realize today that I (probably) talked too much with WDT youth on Friday night. Two things I regret. One is that, in my enthusiasm to make a point, I may have inadvertently discouraged the women from having serious careers; and second, that I may have given the impression to the young men, that they are not important in the life of a child until they are 8 years old -- wrong again. We, men, are very important and we also attach to our children and render them great service. It was just to make the point that the mother is, typically, their primary attachment and father secondary when they are infants.
Men should read their children bedtime stories, take them out in nature and walk with them. They should be interested in their discoveries and their new friends.
Women have careers, and are essential to the progress of our society. Not until they take their proper and rightful place in the arena of human affairs will humanity know peace. My fear, is that with the advent of work being the measure of a man, that women naively sacrifice human relations, esp their children, in seeking that fleeting goal of 'success'. At the end of the day, at the end of ones career, of one's life, the most important thing to all of us is the success of our children, if we were blessed to have some. Otherwise it is the human relations we nurtured and leave behind. Glory and praise in the corporate or academic world is weak solace to the elderly if they are all alone at the end of their days.
Well enough - you can see how I get on a roll talking.
My apologies.