10-26-2011, 05:48 AM
i notice both leanne and abu got outside influences working on them when young. till i was eleven i had a bout a years worth of schooling and till now from 11 maybe another oner two very broken years. i think whatever the parent/grandparent teaches poetry wise, should be reinforced with schools teach it. but properly. not as part of an english class but separately, like art. being halfway around the world i seldom get to see the grand kids and their parents are certainly not interested with showing them poetry. so they have little chance of coming to it unless its an autonomic response from the kids. they can both ski, she does the drama and dancing thing he the thai boxing. and golf. (which they both love) and they both get extra education off their mum. but poetry isn't part of it. so the question is, how do you give or show them poetry when others in the family look on it as unnecessary. i will be giving them a couple of books this year but what else? what do kids do when the haven't got a dad like leanne's or an education system that doesn't show them carrol, shakespeare, or the Iliad? apart from a couple of sonnets but without any real enthusiasm, and even then not till they're in secondary school.