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WASHINGTON — Make a woman laugh, Marilyn Monroe supposedly said, and you can make her do anything.
Judging from the women who fell for him, Woody Allen learned this early. Alas, he is the least likely role model for Republican males, who seem to have misinterpreted the meaning of the aphorism.
To clarify: The idea is to make a girl laugh by engaging your wit, not to make her laugh at you.
As Republican leaders recently began tutoring their male candidates on "How to Talk to a Lady" (my title), it was tempting to imagine what wisdom was being imparted. A few ideas:
"Whatever you do, do not mention the V-word."
"Steer clear of 'legitimate rape.' All rape is illegitimate. Whatever."
"No matter what, avoid voicing thoughts such as, 'This gal is probably not a candidate for Lululemon yoga pants.'"
I was unable to secure confirmation on any of the above despite investigative emails. The absence of transparency, of course, leads to rampant speculation. And, alas, mockery. Even though well-intended and much-needed, the idea that men should get coaching on how to talk to women so as not to offend them is sort of 1950s prep school-ish, as have been some of the suggestions directed their way.
"You have to connect with women on an emotional level," said Mark Jacobs, Republican Senate candidate from Iowa, when a television interviewer asked him what the biggest difference is between men and women. "And with a wife of 25 years and an 18-year-old daughter, I've had a lot of coaching on that," Jacobs continued.
There you go! See how simple? More speculation:
"Madam Senator, I know it must be really hard to juggle your duties here with all the hormonal activity of a seasoned woman such as yourself – and I say that with great compassion because, you know, I have a wife, too. Hoo-boy, do I ever! Just kidding. Sorry, Freudian boxers! Heh-heh-heh. Hey, I thought they said you gals like to laugh?!"
All kidding aside, the real reason for these tutoring sessions is to ensure that incumbent Republicans, especially those who face female opponents, don't commit any unforced errors on issues important to women. In recent years, women have been stampeding the other way like a herd of Gallimimus evading a T. rex or, in this case, a T. Akin, as in Todd, the former Missouri congressman who helpfully defined "legitimate rape."
If I may: Gentlemen, one should connect with women emotionally in the privacy of one's own home. At work, you can talk to a woman just as you talk to a guy, assuming you're communicating about work-related issues. If you are confused about this, you should assume the fetal curl in the privacy of your therapist's office.
The truth is, Democrats have engaged in such training, too. Notably, Joe Biden was coached about how to deal with Sarah Palin during the 2008 vice presidential debate: gently, kindly and without condescension or even a tiny hint of bullying. Biden performed admirably, flashing his million-buck smile without betraying his certain interior bafflement.
Further to truth, except for the occasional nitwit, the Republican Party is not anti-woman despite exhaustive messaging from the left. Yes, they are pro-life, but this is hardly a ridiculous position. Unfortunately, as a society, we've stopped thinking about life beyond that which pertains immediately and pleasurably to our own gratification.
What is ridiculous is Republicans' incompetence in communicating their case. My advice would be to stop trying. Paul Ryan is pro-life, but you don't hear him yakking about it.
The GOP is not helped by such characters as Rush Limbaugh, whom the White House brilliantly tagged as leader of the party and who may be the single greatest obstacle to attracting women. His latest insult among many was advice to women concerned with sexual harassment: "Please ask your breasts to stop staring at my eyes."
Are you laughing yet, ladies? Didn't think so.
Rather than tutor men about how to talk to women, Republicans might do better to recruit some of their own smartest women to public service. The boys might discover that women, rather than looking for a man to handle things, just want to get stuff done. One does fear, however, that once these freshly counseled gents witness intelligent, conservative women committing government, they might swoon from the shock of revelation and, you know, try to connect emotionally.
Kathleen Parker's column is distributed by The Washington Post Writers Group.


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Until Openmoko releases an official GUI-Tool to change settings, SettingsGUI allows you to set various settings of the Openmoko smartphones.
This program is written in Python using pygtk. It can be used only if those are present in your environment (see SettingsGUI#Environment).
Current Features
- Screen (Backlight enable/disable, Backlight brightness, Screen Orientation)
- Audio (profile selection, volume, mute, save to profile)
- GSM (restart gsmd, signal strength, provider, status)
- GPRS (load and save settings from and to /etc/ppp/peers/, connect, set APN, User, Password, Number)
- Bluetooth (enable/disable, set-up/monitor PAN connections, scan for peers)
Planned Features
- GSM (Provider selection)
- Bluetooth (signal strength)
- GPRS (display transfer rate, activate GPRS router)
- Battery (show capacity, voltage, charger-status)
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- As there are no gsmd python bindings available at the time, SettingGUI uses python-subprocess and threads to communicate to the commandline of libgsmd-tool for the time being.
- To prevent interference with the GSM modem you have to expicitly power-up and register the modem by toggeling the "GSM State" checkboxes.
- If you manually register to the gsm network (by toggeling the "Register" checkbox) SettingsGUI will sometimes not notice when the connection is established. Just toggle the init checkbox after about 3 seconds. (this seems to be due to a bug in gsmd...)
|NOTE: From Version 0.7 the atcmd mode of libgsmd-tool is used. To use it revision 2957 (2007-09-12) or later of gsmd is needed. If you have an older version of gsmd - or an older Openmoko image - use the upgrade function of ipkg, install a newer jffs2 image or use version 0.6 of SettingsGUI.
- When the GPRS connection is still active (pppd running on the system) you should close the connection as gsmd can't start up while pppd is using the modem connection - chose "Yes" in the dialog:
Comment on GPRS Support
If you have problems connecting check:
- If the modem is initialized and registered to a network (Start gsmd and register)
- If your login data (mostly APN and User are okay)
- When the gsmd still running you should close the connection as gsmd will interfere with pppd - chose "Yes" in the dialog:
The connection will be terminated when you quit the application. However saved peer configurations can be called independently using:
pppd debug call gprs # where gprs is the peer
Default configuration files are defined in GlobalConfiguration.py. The peer configuration, a connect- and disconnect chat script are written to /etc/ppp/peers/ on first startup if you don't already have a peer in /etc/ppp/peers/. When the connect button is pressed SettingsGUI will create latest_* files in /etc/ppp/peers/ and start the pppd with this latest_* peer.
SettingsGUI also brings a default Nameserver in case you don't have a valid /etc/resolve.conf. The IP is from the OpenDNS Project and will only work if your GPRS provider allows DNS access to this server.
If you have to change anything else than APN, user, password or dial in number for your provider please leave a note at the Discussion Page.
For details and background information on GPRS see Manually using GPRS.
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With SettingsGUI you can only connect using PAN. Due to display real estate problems Version 0.8 does not support HID pairing yet.
The IP address for your PAN connection will be generated from a configurable mask (see GlobalConfiguration.py) and the last byte of the Bluetooth Address (think of MAC address). Default IP is 10.0.0.x.
For details and background information on Bluetooth see Manually using Bluetooth.
|Release Focus
|Release Date
|0.8 (current)
|bluetooth settings, reorganized package structure ("settingsgui" python package included, startscript is named "settings" now)
|bugfix on GSM page, bug prevented detection of gsmd connection (emerged with libgsmd-tool update)
|cleanups, using AT mode, distutils, ATDT -> ATD
|audio settings (mute, save), gprs settings (all new)
|Directory listing
Access the current SVN version at: http://neo1973-germany.de/svn/SettingsGUI/
The Package is now buildable by bitbake. Download the latest .ipk from: http://downloads.openmoko.org/repository/
Thanks to Alessandro there still is the inofficial .ipk and a .bb file. Have a look at his user site.
- For more, see Python.
The following archives will have to be installed (source packages: python python-pygtk python-pycairo python-pygobject):
- python-core
- python-misc
- python-lang
- python-pygtk
- python-subprocess
- python-threading (should be a dependency of python-subprocess - todo: fix)
- python-pygobject (should be a dependency of python-pygtk - todo: fix)
If you want to test this and do not have a build environment, you can 'ipkg install' the python components from the ScaredyCat Users Repositories.
|NOTE: These packages take up a considerable amout of space (about 10 MByte), make sure that you have enough free space or install the packages to the media card as explained in package management.
Installation / Execution
FSO and ASU Users
Use the latest Version from SVN for now.
svn co http://neo1973-germany.de/svn/SettingsGUI/trunk SettingsGUI-svn
The following addidional packages have to be installed:
opkg install alsa-utils-amixer opkg install bluez-utils # opkg install gsmd # opkg install gsmd-tools
GPRS / GSM Panel
You may not want to use those with FSO/ASU! - It WILL break the phone applications (no calls / sms)!
SettingsGUI is not yet supporting the new framework-stack, so you'll have to use gsmd for GSM/GPRS. Therefore you would have to install the packages and stop the gsmget daemon already running. Once you've installed gsmd it may start on every system boot, which may then prevent any other GSM daemon from starting. This may break your phone applications until you fix the problem again.
Get GPRS working anyway
1) Stop gsmget
killall gsmget
2) Connect to your mobile carrier using the GSM Panel
3) Connect to GPRS (answer "yes" when asked to kill the GSM daemon)
From package
- add Alessandros repository as a ipkg source
vi /etc/ipkg/alessandro.conf
- insert
src/gz aiurlano-armv4t http://aiurlano.netsons.org/Openmoko/ipk/armv4t src/gz aiurlano-all http://aiurlano.netsons.org/Openmoko/ipk/all
- update your db
opkg update
- install latest settingsgui
opkg install settingsgui
From source
- download file to Neo (e.g. using wget)
- Uncompress tar.bz2 file (e.g. e.g. tar -xjvf file.tar.bz2)
- install:
cd settingsgui-x.x mv settingsgui settingsgui.py mkdir settingsgui mv * settingsgui mv settingsgui/settingsgui.py ./
- run:
export DISPLAY=:0.0 python settingsgui.py &
Comment on Installation
From Version 0.7 Python distutils is used. So you could also use the setup.py script to install the package:
python settingsgui-x.x/setup.py install
For Version 0.8beta (I didn't test for 0.7), don't change any names, just unpack and then:
cd settingsgui-x.x python setup.py install
But to do this you'll also have to install the packages:
python-compile python-devel python-stringold python-distutils


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As soon as it first aired, Pee-wee's Playhouse fascinated media theorists and commentators, many of whom championed the show as a postmodernist hodgepodge of characters and situations which appeared to soar in the face of domineering racist and sexist presumptions.Who knew I was ingesting such high-minded ideals along with my Saturday morning cereal? But looking back, it was really the aesthetics of the show that appealed to me. Interestingly, Paul Reubens (actor and creator of the Pee-Wee character) was hugely inspired by the 1950s TV of his childhood.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Moments after the Denver Broncos gave the Carolina Panthers a good old-fashioned shellacking Sunday, they gave coach John Fox a game ball.
"There were a lot of motivating factors to help us win this game, and coach Fox was the biggest one," Von Miller said.
Peyton Manning made sure Fox's return to Carolina was successful, throwing for 301 yards and a touchdown, and the defense turned in a dominating performance to lead the Broncos to a 36-14 rout.
Manning threw his 420th touchdown pass to move into a tie for second place on the NFL's list with his childhood hero Dan Marino. He trails only Brett Favre (508).
"I have never felt comfortable kind of being mentioned with him," Manning said.
Manning had plenty of help from his teammates.
Linebacker Miller harassed Cam Newton all day and Trindon Holliday returned a punt 76 yards for a touchdown as the Broncos (6-3) won for the fifth time in six weeks. The Broncos sacked Newton seven times, including once for a safety, and Miller pressured him into an interception Tony Carter returned 40 yards for a score.
Fox spent nine seasons in Carolina before his relationship with owner Jerry Richardson dramatically deteriorated when the organization failed to offer him a contract extension.
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Guided by Herman Buhl's famous "truisms," a young John Long gets into a ropeless jam high on Tahquitz Rock.
Herman Buhl nearly killed me, which is a curious thing since the great Austrian mountaineer died 20 years before I nearly met my maker soloing at Tahquitz Rock in southern California. But it was Buhl's fault, nonetheless. It was also to his credit that I learned a pivotal lesson in the process.
Like typical upstart climbers, Richard Harrison, my climbing partner back then, and I were obsessed with the sport. When we weren't climbing we were reading about it. Our favorite tome was Buhl's classic, The Lonely Challenge. We perused that book so often that cover fell off during our senior year in high school. Make that my senior year. Richard quit Upland High because it cut into his rock time.
Anyway, we committed numerous Buhl proverbs to memory and recited them. Whenever one of us got strung out on a sketchy lead we'd lip our favorite line, "Every man must make his own choices, and every man must climb his own mountain." This Buhlism had a magical capacity to steady us. Never mind that Buhl was a mountaineer and we were strictly rock climbers, that our eyes were set on El Capitan, and not the Eiger or Broad Peak. This had no bearing on our idolization of the mountaineer. It was all about Buhl's attitude, his commitment to the "Lonely Challenge" as the one and only passion worth pursuing—at all costs.
Buhl's proverbs spelled out an approach to life, and they equipped our early climbs with a sureness of purpose, a significance and a dizzy sense of romance, gifts we would carry in our hearts for decades. Gifts that nearly got me killed soloing a moderate route at Tahquitz Rock long before I knew what I was doing.
Freshman year at college, my roommate had a trashed old red Triumph, a wheezing British rust bucket with four bald tires, a cranky trany and a dozen oil leaks. So long as I returned the Triumph with more gas than when I started—which I never did—I could borrow it whenever I wanted—which I always did. By stacking my courses at the beginning and end of each week, I had Wednesdays free, and I'd always spend them with Richard, reciting maxims from The Lonely Challenge and bouldering ourselves to smithereens up at Mount Baldy or out at Roubidoux.
Richard couldn't make our scheduled rendezvous at the boulders, so on this particular Tuesday night, while post-holing through Beowulf, a fantastic plan burst into my head: At dawn the following morning, I would borrow the Triumph, putt two and a half hours up to Tahquitz—barring breakdowns—and solo one of the 800-foot climbs on the balding southwest face. I pitched Beowulf aside, packed two PB&J sandwiches and a quart of water in my daypack and tossed and turned all night anticipating the coming day's heroics.
I set off at 5:30 a.m. and gunned the old Triumph out past Beaumont and the turnoff for Idyllwild. Steaming and farting up the zig-zagging road to Tahquitz, I kept picturing Buhl during his many ascents in the Alps, where he'd trudge in alone, solo a world-class climb in nothing flat—encountering various life-and-death jams that he'd master perfunctorily—then trudge out 30 miles through waist-deep snowdrifts, back to a log fire, a loaf of bread and a block of cheese in his Bavarian chalet. I imagined myself high on the white ramparts of Tahquitz, moving with a sureness of purpose remarkable in the annals of mountaineering.
The Tahquitz parking area was empty—not unusual for a weekday, and a vivid reminder of the solitary nature of my adventure. Thirty minutes and seemingly 1,500 switchbacks later, I kicked back on Lunch Rock, Tahquitz rearing directly above, shrouded in gloomy shade.
The normal sounds so evident on weekends—the ringing of hammers and pitons and bantering between partners—were conspicuously absent. All was dead quiet save for the purr of wind passing through the pines. I glanced up at the wall and swallowed hard. A Lonely Challenge indeed. The PB&J sandwich stuck in my throat, and I gave up after a few bites. I repeated a few Buhlisms to muster resolve, laced up my red, sweat-hardened canvas PAs, cinched up my chalkbag and hiked 50 feet up to the rock.
Despite cragging at Tahquitz for nearly two years, I'd climbed but a handful of the classic routes, the old stand-bys in the 5.4 to 5.7 range and a number of harder testpieces. I wasn't about to solo one of those grim lines, with their oily granite holds and complex route-finding. Instead, I strove to knock off something in the low range and well within my ability. To keep the game sporting, I figured I'd just spontaneously pick a line without checking the guidebook. Now, gazing up at a maze of criss-crossing flakes and cracks and glassy face interludes, I felt a momentarily flinch in my conviction.
Buhl might have held true to his words till the end, but I longed for my dorm room, a bottle of beer and one of those curvy freshman girls who didn't know the difference between a rascal and a prince.
I picked an easy gully and started chimneying. With every upward move my anxiety pushed into excitement. I was on-line, thrilled by the feeling of self command.
Like most Tahquitz crack systems, the chimney ended after 50 feet, forcing me out right and onto a grainy face. I wandered over the slab and moved up to a short handcrack that ran 100 feet, finally petering out below a big ledge. As I climbed I found a cozy rhythm, moving steadily up the 60-degree wall; but the climbing, around 5.3, felt too easy to support the heroics I'd painted in my head, so I moved over and began stemming up a steep corner, simple enough to stay calm, and just stiff enough (perhaps 5.6) to feel legendary. Life was a glorious sunrise.
I encountered a bushy tree at the top of the corner—a trifling obstacle if you had a rope and partner. But without either I didn't dare handwalk up the dangling vines and limbs clogging the corner, fearing they'd snap. No choice but to burrow into a regular hedgerow, teeming with piss ants, finally groveling onto a small shelf where I started cuffing myself to clear off the insects. One dauntless ant crowded into my ear and began traipsing about the actual drum until I feared madness. I violently shook my head and thumbed my ear, but the ant kept marching.
Desperate, I tried a couple delicate probes with a twig, and finally evicted the ant, but my nerves were fried. That's when I noticed dark clouds had swarmed up the valley when I wasn't looking and presently were swirling up and around the rock. I instinctively pictured Buhl high on the snow-swept flank of Broad Peak, his eyes fixed with resolve.
"Through wind and through snow, few men hear the call to push on," said Herman.
"I hear that," I replied.
I can't recall much about the next few hundred feet, only that I kept traversing around, from one flake system to another, and that every time I'd find a ledge or shelf, I'd wander back and forth trying to find a crack I could plug into and stay anchored to the wall. The cliffside remained low-angled, and most of the routes here were 5.7 or easier, though folks had strung together blank bits between features to produce a few 5.10s, climbs I definitely sought to avoid. Route-finding was now my principal concern.
An arching corner 20 feet up and right looked promising, and appeared to angle into a big overlap/chimney a hundred or so feet above. But I didn't much care for the bald face looming just above—no more than 55 degrees, granted, but clearly as smooth as Michelangelo's Dying Slave.
"Adventure is not for every man," Herman chimed in. "And that's the charm of it." Try as I did, I couldn't spot the charm on that holdless slab.
"Occupational hazards," I said to myself and stepped onto the slab, a piece of rock any roped-up beginner could waltz without pause. But moving onto that windowpane, 400 feet off the deck, with no rope, and shod in the iron-hard rubber soles of the 1970s, had me gritting my teeth and holding my breath.
This was a one-move-a-minute affair, and I became so focused on the nuances of every sensation under my feet and hands that it had probably been sprinkling for several minutes before I noticed the rock bore a thin film of water. That meant that the only dry holds were the ones under my feet, a concept that froze me solid. My mind went blank until my hero piped in: "Dangers easily managed are not true dangers," he said. "True dangers are those that most men foreswear."
Here again was another of those vicious Buhlisms that Richard and I had literally worn out—Buhl's answer to all those meek souls who questioned why he would risk everything for the Lonely Challenge. But now his words sounded like a cruel jest, and I believed in my heart that the Austrian had duped me into a lethal jam where I would learn, all too late, the folly of his asinine proverbs. It struck me that the same realization had likely come to Herman as he plunged to his death after stepping off that fateful Himalayan cornice, and I imagined the grizzled Austrian, up there in the clouds, laughing at me.
My boots were starting to ooze down the slab. It wouldn't be long now.
I swore at Buhl for swindling me into a knotty-pine box and kept at him until I'd worked myself into a rage. Buhl might have held true to his words till the end, but I longed for my dorm room, a bottle of beer and one of those curvy freshman girls who didn't know the difference between a rascal and a prince. I longed to read Beowulf, cover to cover. Jesus, I wanted off that slab.
With new resolve I straightened, paddled a half dozen moves up the soaking slab and found myself on a middling shelf beneath the chimney. I slunk back into the depths, wondering what just happened. Malice toward Herman had gotten my boots moving, but something else had happened, some internal shift. For a moment I wondered who I was. I had a hunch that if I simply pressed on, things might clear up a bit. I started ratcheting up the chimney.
In 50 feet the chimney pinched and arched over, leaving me to exit on handlebar-sized holds. Six hundred feet off the deck now and the drizzle had scarcely eased. But rather than rage against the difficulties, I found myself choosing them, and the world transformed under my boots. I reefed over the chickenheads, steep but simple, and scrambled to the top via a final grainy slab.
Most all the way up that cliffside I'd experienced two climbs and two lives—the one I believed I wanted, and the one I actually lived. By embracing actuality, "through wind and through storm," as Buhl would put it, I began quietly appreciating, rather than boycotting, the only life I could call my own.
An hour later I push-started the old Triumph and rolled down to the road for home. The old rust bucket overheated just outside Fontana, and I burned my hand when the radiator geysered over. Just then another truism from another icon, the British mountaineer Don Whillans, popped into my head. "Aye," he said. "It's a good life provided you don't weaken."
And what happens if you weaken? I asked as I watched an angry red welt swell up from my hand.
"They bury you."
This article appeared in Rock and Ice issue 126 (July 2003).
Longtime Rock and Ice and Climbing contributor John Long, one of the original Stonemasters, is perhaps best known for his first free ascent of Astroman and first one day ascent of the Nose of El Capitan. He is the author or editor of over 30 books and the recipient of the American Alpine Club Literary Award. You can purchase his latest book, "Icarus Syndrome," published by Di Angelo Publications here.


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Is the Second Reconstruction over?
The first ended with the withdrawal of Union troops from the Southern states as part of a deal that gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency after the disputed election of 1876.
The second began with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a century after Appomattox. Under the VRA, Southern states seeking to make even minor changes in voting laws had to come to Washington to plead their case before the Justice Department and such lions of the law as Eric Holder.
Southern states were required to get this pre-clearance for any alterations in voting laws because of systematic violations of the 14th and 15th amendment constitutional rights of black Americans to equal access to polling places and voting booths.
The South had discriminated by using poll taxes, gerrymandering and literacy tests, among other tactics. Dixie was in the penalty box because it had earned a place there.
What the Supreme Court did Tuesday, in letting the South out of the box, is to declare that, as this is not 1965, you cannot use abuses that date to 1965, but have long since disappeared, to justify indefinite federal discrimination against the American South.
You cannot impose burdens on Southern states, five of which recorded higher voting percentages among their black populations in 2012 than among their white populations, based on practices of 50 years ago that were repudiated and abandoned in another era.
You cannot punish Southern leaders in 2013 for the sins of their grandfathers. As Chief Justice John Roberts noted, black turnout in 2012 was higher in Mississippi than in Massachusetts.
Does this mean the South is now free to discriminate again?
By no means. State action that discriminates against minority voters can still be brought before the Department of Justice.
Even the "pre-clearance" provision of the VRA remains. All the court has said is that if Congress wishes to impose a pre-clearance provision on a state or group of states, Congress must have more evidence to justify unequal treatment than what "Bull" Connor did in Birmingham back in 1965.
Congress could pass a bill today authorizing Justice Department intervention in any state where the registration of blacks, Hispanics or Asians fell below 60 percent of that electorate.
What Congress can no longer do is impose conditions on Southern states from which Northern states are exempt. Washington can no longer treat the states unequally—for that, too, is a violation of the Constitution.
The Roberts court just took a giant stride to restoring the Union.
Yet the hysterical reaction to the decision reveals a great deal.
What do critics say they are afraid of?
While conceding that immense progress has been made with the huge turnout of black voters in the South and the re-election of a black president, they say they fear that without the pre-clearance provision this would never have happened. And now that the provision no longer applies to the South, the evil old ways will return.
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Casey Kasem gained fame with his radio music countdown shows, "American Top 40" and "Casey's Top 40," and was the voice of Shaggy in the cartoon "Scooby Doo."
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The Maastricht University (UM) owns more than fifty fairy tale books from the end of the nineteenth to the beginnings of the twentieth century. They are often beautifully illustrated. And they are also invaluable as a source for research and education at our university.
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For most kids, pets are more than just animals their families own — they're members of the family and the best of friends.
Unfortunately, the joy of owning a pet goes hand-in-hand with the heartbreak of losing one, whether because of old age, illness, or an accident.
And that can be very hard. After all, family pets often are the first to greet kids in the morning and after school. Your pet may be the one your child looks to for comfort and companionship when ill or feeling unpopular or upset.
While it's impossible to shelter kids from the loss of a pet, you can help them cope with it. And because a pet's death might be their first time losing a loved one, the grieving process can help kids learn how to cope with other losses throughout life.
Sharing the News and the Grief
One of the most difficult parts about losing a pet may be breaking the bad news to kids. Try to do so one-on-one in a place where they feel safe and comfortable and not easily distracted.
As you would with any tough issue, try to gauge how much information kids need to hear based on their age, maturity level, and life experience.
If your pet is very old or has a long illness, consider talking to kids before the death happens. If you have to euthanize your pet, you may want to explain that:
- the veterinarians have done everything that they can
- your pet would never get better
- this is the kindest way to take the pet's pain away
- the pet will die peacefully, without feeling hurt or scared
Again, a child's age, maturity level, and questions will help determine whether to offer a clear and simple explanation for what's going to happen. If so, it's OK to use words like "death" and "dying" or to say something like "The veterinarian will give our pet a shot that first puts it to sleep and then stops the heart from beating." Many kids want a chance to say goodbye beforehand, and some may be old enough or emotionally mature enough to be there to comfort the pet during the process.
If you do have to euthanize your pet, be careful about saying the animal went "to sleep" or "got put to sleep." Young kids tend to take things literally, so this can conjure up scary ideas about sleep or surgery and anesthesia.
If the pet's death is more sudden, calmly explain what has happened. Be brief, and let your child's questions guide how much information you provide.
Sticking to the Truth
Avoid trying to gloss over the event with a lie. Telling a child that "Buster ran away" or "Max went on a trip" is not a good idea. It probably won't alleviate the sadness about losing the pet, and if the truth does come out, your child will probably be angry that you lied.
If asked what happens to the pet after it dies, draw on your own understanding of death, including, if relevant, the viewpoint of your faith. And since none of us knows fully, an honest "I don't know" certainly can be an appropriate answer — it's OK to tell kids that death is a mystery.
Helping Your Child Cope
Like anyone dealing with a loss, kids usually feel a variety of emotions besides sadness after the death of a pet. They might experience loneliness, anger if the pet was euthanized, frustration that the pet couldn't get better, or guilt about times that they were mean to or didn't care for the pet as promised.
Help kids understand that it's natural to feel all of those emotions, that it's OK to not want to talk about them at first, and that you're there when they are ready to talk.
Don't feel compelled to hide your own sadness about losing a pet. Showing how you feel and talking about it openly sets an example for kids. You show that it's OK to feel sad when you lose a loved one, to talk about your feelings, and to cry when you feel sad. And it's comforting to kids to know that they're not alone in feeling sad. Share stories about the pets you had — and lost — when you were young and how difficult it was to say goodbye.
Questions About Death From Your Child
Often the death of a pet can lead to questions that may be difficult to answer. Let children know that it is okay to ask questions. It is best to be honest with the child. It is also okay to say you don't know the answer. Basic answers are usually enough to satisfy a younger child's mind. This is an opportunity to help your child grow, understand life, and is a great time to share personal thoughts and beliefs, creating a closer bond with your child.
Seek professional help if the child is showing signs of severe grief.
Withdraw from friends
• Reduced or no appetite
• Bed wetting
• Afraid of being alone
• Nightmares
• Increase in thoughts of death
What Can I Do to Help Myself Grieving the Loss of a Pet?
There are several things you can do to aid in the mourning of your loss:
- Be patient and kind with yourself. This is the first key to dealing with your grief effectively. Our losses are real, painful, and evoke a variety of feelings and memories. Any time you find yourself wishing you were better, wanting to be "past" it, remind yourself that your emotional processing has no set endpoint. You're in mourning and, by pressuring yourself, you only make yourself feel worse.
- Find an ally: Find at least one safe person you can talk to about your loss. If you can't identify someone who is safe, call your veterinarian and ask for the name of another pet owner who recently experienced a loss, or look into joining a support group specifically for pet loss.
- Conduct an overview of your pet's life: You can do this by writing down your thoughts and feelings or by sharing your pet's story with your ally. When did you get your pet? What are some special memories? What were his or her personality features? What will you miss the most? This overview helps solidify the things you want to make sure not to forget.
- Memorialize your pet: Using TreeUrn can be living tributes that will continue as reminders for years to come.
This is a sorrowful time. While we may be compelled to find strategies to move us through this period, there will be occasions when we won't have answers to our painful questions or activities to quell our longings.
What would your pet do if he or she found you sad and in pain? The answer is clear: give you love, give you comfort, and stay with you as long as it took. We can all take a lesson from our animal friends.