Page 4 May 1983 Cassiar Courier EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE ON MAY oth The Provincial Election takes place on May Sth. The polling station in Cassiar will be in the Gym at the Recreation Centre. Below are the candidates whose names will appear on the ballot for the Atlin Riding BOBBY BALL SOCIAL CREDIT Bobby Ball came to Telegraph Creek when he was three weeks old and has lived there for all of his fifty years. His family has been in the area since 1912. He is married, has four children and operates as a big game outfitter out of the “Ball Ranch” in Glenora. ae 2 8 PAUL BROHMAN INDEPENDENT Paul Brohman and his wife Peggy have lived in Cassiar for five years and have one son, Michael. Paul is an employee \ \ BURGESS A. LONGSON INDEPENDENT Burgess Longson has lived in the Atlin Riding since 1977. He is married and has seven children, only two of whom are still at home. He presently works for the De- partment of Highways out of Good Hope Lake. Burgess is presently serving his second term as a School Trustee for the village of Good Hope Lake and is the Chairperson for the Business Committee of S.D. 87 (Stikine). Mr. Longson was also actively involved in setting up the Al- cohol Recovery Program in Iskut. AL PASSARELL NDP GIRL GUIDES Looking at the Guide Programme recently, we thought it would be a good idea to introduce the girls to some folk dancing. Mrs. Nada Carin came to our meeting one evening and tried her best to teach us the “Kola” from Yugoslavia. We soon discovered that it was not so easy to keep our steps in unison! However, it was a Start and with a bit more practice, we should be able to per- fect it! My thanks to Nada for spending her time patient- ly with us. We also hope to learn an Israeli Folk Dance and a Canadian Square Dance. After having a taste of dan- cing, some of the girls would like to go on with the remain- der of the requirements for the Dancer’s badge. This in- volves amongst other things working out their own rout- ine to their own choice of music and being able to put it all together in the presence of the Tester. Now that the lighter evenings are with us, it is hard to resist being outside for part of our meeting at least. We took a wander around town looking for signs of the changing season and later compared notes between patrols Both patrols demonstrated their observance with many notes being made on the coming of Spring to Cassiar. We have some girls working on their Games Leader and Campfire Leader Badges at the present time. In this connection they have to prepare either a game for the evening - one we have not played before - or put together the whole of the Campfire part of our meeting. In each instance, they have to be completely in control of the rest of the group and present their game or campfire in a capable and entertaining manner. Badges presented recently were the Interpreter’s Badge to Chantal Bilodeau, and Karen and Danielle Benner and Tamara Mulrooney were presented with their Hostess Badges. Also Tamara Mulrooney received the Core of the Voyageur Challenge and Cheryl Maguire earned the . badge of the Home Pathway of the Adventure Challenge. Congratulations to all of these girls. BEAVERS by Sue Chambers With the good weather the Beavers have had a chance to enjoy the outdoors. A trek across the creek led them in search of a variety of tracks to identify, as well as specul- ation as to what happens to the birds and animals. Games in the deep snow provided both entertainment and frus- tration as the boys sunk up to their waists and played find Al and his wife Debbie and son Rocky live in Atlin. Al has represented the Atlin riding in the legislature since the last election in 1979, Prior to his election as the NDP candidate he taught at the Good Hope Lake of Cassiar Resources. He has served on the executive of Cassiar Community Club for two years. He has also been actively involved in Union affairs as Safety Chairman (a the lost boots. On another occasion the ski hill became a thrilling roller coaster for all sizes and shapes of tobag- gans, saucers and sleds. After the joy of riding in the sun, position which’ he presently holds) and on the Grievance School. the Beavers returned to Mr. Waldera’s classroom for hot Committee. i : chocolate. i ‘Y ad ax | A Tail Celebration was held to recognize the physical, Now 1S the tl} } 1e to use that CLOUT mental and emotional development of the Beavers. This ; é ceremony occurs twice a year, at which time the boys re- (USING A FORCEFUL BLOW) ceive a color coded tail to sew on the back of their hats. This is a time to reflect on what has happened in the past few months and to look forward to what will happen in the months ahead. VOTE INDEPENDENT After a couple of weeks break from Beavers the boys are now back doing their skills and crafts, and practicing their campfire songs. Many more outdoor activities are planned for those sunny days ahead. — The Rod and Reel NEW STOCK HAS ARRIVED Rods, Reels,Tackle | Camping Supplies Coleman Products Pellet Guns Ammunition SHOP EARLY FOR BEST SELECTION HUNTING AND FISHING LICENCES 524 Malozemoff Cassiar B.C. Phone 778-7736 : Mon. - Fri. 1-8p.m. Sat. & Sun.~ OPEN IF HOME © LIBRARY cS NEWS SPRING AND SUMMER HOURS Beginning May 1, 1983, Library hours will be reduced. The Sunday and Tuesday afternoon openings will be elim- inated, leaving Thursday afternoon as the only day-time opening. The evening hours will remain unaffected. Library hours for May, June and August: Sunday, Monday & Friday — 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday — 1 to 4 p.m. During July the Library will be closed. Book Review The Hurried Child: Growing up too soon too fast, by David Elkind. This is an excellent book that ought to be read by ev-. ery person charged with the responsibility of bringing up children today. ; Children are hurried through childhood, made: to grow up and act grown-up far too soon. The result is chil- dren who suffer from stress. This is the basic thesis of this book. The evidence of how children are hurried is every- where: from pre-schoolers being pressured to read before they have the ability to comprehend, to six-year-olds in designer jeans, to adolescents caught in ‘a premature web of booze, sex and drugs. in the first part of his book, child psychologist El- kind looks. at the dynamics of hurrying. He identifies three sources of the forcing of children to grow up too soon too fast — the home, the school and the media. The most important, and the most influential, is the home. The chapter on the home is a mini-course on contem- porary civilization and the stress it places on us all. Middle class parents are stressed today as they have never been before. They are stressed by the growing threat of viol- ence, theft and intimidation that is part of life in most North American cities. They are stressed by growing pro- fessional insecurity, unemployment, inflation, and the like. They are increasingly stressed by the spectre of loneliness as marriages break down more frequently. When people are under stress, just as when people are ill, they tend to be so absorbed with their own problems that they have no time to consider the problems of others; a stressful society becomes a self-centred society. And that has disastrous consequences when it comes to child- rearing, which requires, if it is to be done well, a ‘decentre- ing from one’s own needs and perspectives’ and a deep concern for the needs and perspectives of the child. The result is that children are more and more required to adapt and fit in to the schedule and wants of their stressed parents, and are forced to forego childhood in order to be mini-adults who ‘don’t get in the way’ or interfere with what their parents want to do. ‘We hurry children,’ says . Elkind, ‘because stress induces us to put our own needs a- head of their needs.’ It goes further than that. Parents who see their early dreams and hopes evaporate in the desert air of a hostile economic and technological wasteland tend to project those hopes and dreams on to their children, and demand that their children excell; children are expected to restore their parents’ lost self-esteem. ‘No one sees his kids as aver- age,’ one counsellor remarks, ‘and those who don’t per- form are made to feel like failures.’ It often seems to all children that parents demand achievement in return for love; and if they cannot achieve the way parents demand them to, they are outcast. This is one cause for the radical increase in teen-age suicide in the last ten years, and the — prime reason why young people join cults where personal affirmation and acceptance are unconditional. Children are often hurried into sports, and into tough competitive sports, at too early an age. Elkind suggests that ‘there is a strong tie between job dissatisfaction, on the one hand, and a disproportionate concern with the off« spring’s success in sports, on the other.’ Parents who are frustrated in the competitiveness of the workplace project their demand for success onto their children. ‘It is parent need, not a child’s authentic wish, that pushes children in- to team sports at an early age’ when the child should ex- perience the joy of play instead of the adult demand to win at all costs. Divorce and separation hurry children. They have to cope with the fighting in the home, and with the emotion- al shock of having one parent move out. Parents deprived of marital partners tend to force their children into the partnership role, requiring a level of emotional maturity that the children cannot have. Children are required to ap- prove of the parents’ decision to separate, and of their new sexual relationships: they are expected to make mat- ure ethical and value judgements for which nothing in their development has yet made them capable. All this hurries children out of childhood. 6 The school and the media also exert enormous pres- sures on children to grow up too soon, too fast, often, in the school, according to a rigid age-grade scale that over- looks individual patterns of growth. The second half of the book deals with the effects Cassiar Courier May 1983 Page 5 such hurrying has on children. The victims of stress-relat- ed diseases such as headache and ulcer are becoming younger. Childhood victims of stress tend to become mal- adjusted, anti-social, and angry adolescents who, aware of being hurried in earlier years but unable to articulate their stress or rebel against it, now react with startling and in- deed frightening vehemence against the people who depriv- ed them of their childhood. Stressed parents tend to be- * come self-absorbed, creating the stress of hurried child- hood in their children. The stressed children in turn tend to become self-centred, to turn against the world and par- ents in their absorption with their own wounds and re- sentments. Children need to be children, to have a childhood where, unhurried, they can grow freely through the stages of physical, emotional, intellectual and social develop- ment that cannot be compressed or skipped without ser- ious damage being done. This book will pierce many hearts. But those hearts, once pierced, can be the source of salvation for many, par- ents and children. 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