The Fifth Child is a novel by Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing. The story is about a normal family whose fifth child disrupts their happy middle class existence because of his seriously anti-social behavior. As parents, they do all the normal, nurturing things we expect parents to do, and their other children are fine. When the fifth child has behaviorial problems, they do all the things you are supposed to do and seek all the help society has to offer to help him. Nothing works, and eventually, because as he grows older he becomes more and more evil, they, sadly, decide that the only thing they can do for the rest of the family to survive is to just write him off.
The point of the story is to ask whether or not some people are just born bad, and it doesn't matter what their gene pool is or what kind of home life they are given as children.
Do you agree or not with this idea: is there such a thing as a bad seed? Are some people just born bad?
Without knowing anything about you or your family, but looking at what goes on and has gone on in my own, and the stories other people have told me about their relationships with parents--- kids and parents have problems and just because the kids get older, it doesn't mean they stop having problems. Maybe he is upset with you for some reason, and he is trying to send a message or hurt your. Kids don't realize how much they hurt their parents by this kind of gesture. From what I've seen in families, these kinds of things come and go and surely this too will pass...he will change his attitude and want to be back in contact with you...if his friends don't want to tell you where he is and he doesn't get in contact with you, I don't think you can force it. If there is someone you know who will probably be in contact with him, you could let that person know you'd like to hear from him...then just wait until he is ready to come around--mentally and physically. Good luck. Take joy in the other four who are remaining in contact.
It's a nice poem, lots of lovely imagery and thought...
But I have a serious question...it's this idea of not making love to someone, but making love with them....Is it possible for one person to simply make love to the other one...for one to just allow oneself to be made love to... is it possible and could it possibly be a positive thing? Just wondering....
When I say I want to meet someone intelligent I mean somone who is sharp, clever, thoughtful, open minded--- a thinking person who observes the world around him and develops an awareness of it rather than just reacting to it; someone who reads, studies, and assesses not to validate preconceived ideas, but to understand and to learn.....someone who is smart enough to see the humor in life and as well as to be moved by the anguish and to accept it; someone who had dignity of soul because he is aware that the soul is meaningless without dignity....being intelligent is obviously a complex issue for me...
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you men are so easy to manipulate.....
I know.....
RE: Intelligent partners ..
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