I would not rush to change a single letter in your signature line JazzDad; it is a VERY good reminder that we need to be looking carefully for those sometimes hidden, "great strengths" in others, especially young people, and COMMENT ON THEM. I have long since quit worrying [well, at least it doesn't keep me up nights] about the things that I CAN'T DO; like the daily word jumble in the newspaper, and the computer stuff that I see Pat and a few others discussing; and instead concentrate on those areas in which I seem to have an advantage. Reeeely good "kid mechanics" (people like teachers and other kid specialists like resource folks at skool) are adept at finding the drawstrings that open the packages that kids are carrying. When Roy Rogers and Dale Evans went to an orphanage in the early fifties to adopt some kids to add to their single kid family, one seven year old boy approached them and said: "Take me Mister, I can hoe corn real good." SOME ONE at SOME TIME had complemented this kid on his ability with a hoe as a means of encouragement, and when the time came to toss his most valuable asset out on the bargaining table, that is what he used. You hear so much about self esteem from the liberal bunch as if it was a label that you can apply. Nope,.... it doesn't work that way, it's an earned quality; and I feel sorry for kids growing up in a society where work is no longer valued and there is no concrete way that kids can make a genuine contribution to the family well being; like the kids who had to feed the pigs every day or those pigs might die and the family would have less to eat. We've lost that vital connection somewhere in the dark corner of a shopping mall arcade.
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I would not rush to change a single letter in your signature line JazzDad; it is a VERY good reminder that we need to be looking carefully for those sometimes hidden, "great strengths" in others, especially young people, and COMMENT ON THEM. I have long since quit worrying [well, at least it doesn't keep me up nights] about the things that I CAN'T DO; like the daily word jumble in the newspaper, and the computer stuff that I see Pat and a few others discussing; and instead concentrate on those areas in which I seem to have an advantage. Reeeely good "kid mechanics" (people like teachers and other kid specialists like resource folks at skool) are adept at finding the drawstrings that open the packages that kids are carrying. When Roy Rogers and Dale Evans went to an orphanage in the early fifties to adopt some kids to add to their single kid family, one seven year old boy approached them and said: "Take me Mister, I can hoe corn real good." SOME ONE at SOME TIME had complemented this kid on his ability with a hoe as a means of encouragement, and when the time came to toss his most valuable asset out on the bargaining table, that is what he used. You hear so much about self esteem from the liberal bunch as if it was a label that you can apply. Nope,.... it doesn't work that way, it's an earned quality; and I feel sorry for kids growing up in a society where work is no longer valued and there is no concrete way that kids can make a genuine contribution to the family well being; like the kids who had to feed the pigs every day or those pigs might die and the family would have less to eat. We've lost that vital connection somewhere in the dark corner of a shopping mall arcade. 
