sf wrote:
>
> You mean they didn't tell you about all the people starving in (fill
> in the blank: county)? For me, it was China.


Nah. That would be scaring me into eating because of other people's
deaths. My parents' tactic was to scare me into eating because of my
own. They thought this was funny. I was an anxious little kid.


--Lia

On Thu, 24 May 2007 07:54:14 -0400, Julia Altshuler
> wrote:

>sf wrote:
>>
>> You mean they didn't tell you about all the people starving in (fill
>> in the blank: county)? For me, it was China.
>
>
>Nah. That would be scaring me into eating because of other people's
>deaths. My parents' tactic was to scare me into eating because of my
>own. They thought this was funny. I was an anxious little kid.
>
>
Good old fashioned guilt (an emotional hammer shared by christians and
jews) vs. fear of death.... hmmm.


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