-=> Quoting Sean Rima to Danny Ceppa on 02-15-06  23:26 <=-

 NB>>> think she went on to say something about priorities being in the
 NB>>> right place... :)
 SR>>> I always say that a tidy house is the sign of a sick mind :) And
 SR>>> the kids need a place to have a wobbly from time to time :)
 DC>> A perfect place with kids in it is a repressive place.
 SR>> Sure is, and if they don't make a mess they are not happy
 DC> Kids will be kids.  Forcing them to grow up too early is not
 DC> good for them.

 SR> No, and I hate seeing families where the kids are clean and tidy and
 SR> their homes look like a show house

Me, too.  Seems unnatural, somehow... :)   There are* a few for whom
this is normal, and who naturally are nasty-neat even as kids, but I'm
sure they aren't anywhere near a majority or significant minority... 

I made a fast and lasting friend once, just because of our agreement on
what constituted a comfortable (vs uncomfortable) home...  We toured
Strong Museum here in Rochester, a museum for children and of past
culture (think old toys, dolls, furniture, lunchboxes, other artifacts
of daily living, Sesame Street, etc... lots of hands-on exhibits).  As
we enjoyed the dollhouses, we kept remarking how UNtrue to nature they
were, in their pristine arrangments and no clutter whatsoever.  We saw a
model of an old country store, filled to the brim with (somewhat
haphazard) merchandise, and remarked how that was a BIT more like it! 
And we critiqued each bit of furniture as to how practical it would be,
once it had the normal piles of stuff upon it ("That one wouldn't work,
the papers would just fall right off the back!")...  

ttyl      neb

... You should hardly (well, seldom, then) ever equivocate.

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