Word: guilts
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...reason, I think, is guilt. About 11 million Americans will travel abroad this summer--80% of them as tourists. And such hordes can quickly ruin the very places they love. That's why environmental groups were so quick to criticize plans recently announced by the Mexican government to develop Baja California's unspoiled eastern coast. Those who remember a charming locale before the tourists arrived understandably sigh for the past. I have just returned from a week visiting friends in Crete, where a mountain gorge that I first hiked in solitary silence in 1973 now sees 260,000 visitors...
...have made those guilt-induced reforms and still feel anguished, chances are we are suffering from another kind of guilt, the global kind that envelops many mothers who work. This free-floating guilt is insidious and destructive. It stomps on the joy of parenting, and it sends our children a message that our family life is somehow not good enough. We who feel guilty about working, even if we love our jobs, teach our kids that working is somehow a bad thing. Since most of our daughters will probably grow up to be working mothers, this is hardly...
Lerner believes that guilt, after taking a brief holiday during the 1980s, has surged again as mothers re-evaluate the impact that working has on their families. Lerner counsels mothers to understand that guilt rises from expectations that are out of whack with reality. "And," she says, "guilt-stricken mothers should also realize that the truly guilty rarely feel that...
...read more about mothers and guilt, go to www.harrietlerner.com or www.women.com E-mail Amy at timefamily@aol.com
...During the spring of 1951, CIA recruiters came on the campus and made all sorts of interviews. [Our class] had escaped service in the second world war and we had a little built of a guilt complex," Kane says. "When Uncle Sam came and pointed his finger, we just said yes." Kane, who went on to be officer in command in Dakar, Algiers and Lisbon, says he took the job out of a commitment to civic duty. An added perk was the starting $33,000 salary, "more money than I ever could have imagined...