Amy writes:
At the end of Saturday's discussion about controlling
others it was mentioned that we brainwash our children from the time
of birth. A flippant though fashionable remark not to be taken seriously. Do
we qualify the care with which we choose the food we give our children as
gutwashing? (Being French, according to my children I gave them too much salad
and fruit and not enough Irish fries or English puddings. Though now, while
considering themselves as British, they feed their own children salads and fruit
and I am the one who brings the pudding).
I have tried since Saturday to make a
joke by putting together the 2 metaphors of 'brainwashing' and 'throwing out the
baby with the water of the bath' Could not do it. Would somebody
cleverer?
Another idea while taking in my wet washing. Should a
mother not nurse her baby because he/she will absorb her ideas with her milk? 3
metaphors.
Amy
