Jim Charter wrote:

 > My brother is as fine a goal-oriented, self-made-successful,
 > athletic, health-conscious, generous, avucular example as ever a
 > niece and nephew could want...  and he scares the living crap out
 > of my kids.

They don't have to like him or in any way want to be like him, but I 
think it's important that they see that there are alternatives. I've 
done myself a lot of harm in life by blindly accepting behaviors for 
which I was never presented an alternative. I was lucky early-on to 
stumble into some of these alternatives through witless rebellion. 
Slowly, I'm figuring out some of the others, but I might have saved 
myself a lot of grief had I (literally) seen as a kid that I could ABC 
instead of XYZ.

  -Shay

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