Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Fall 1973, page 8

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to go in your career. president of the company or sec- retary to the president? ls marriage for you? There is not as much pressur: on girls to marry as there used to be. There is n stigma now on girls who do not marry, v Consider if you marry young â€"â€" what Will happen to your career? I ’ iThink carefully about the kind of husband With whom you want to share two thirds of your life. I You are what you are today because of many in- fluences. your parents. your friends. school, 4-H and other organizations to which you belong.vDo you like who you are? If not. why not do something about it. You inust love and respect yourself as a person before you can love and esteem others and before they can love and esteem you. There are times when we all do Round the World Dining Food Forum presented by food specialists. Anne Urquhart, Denise Kendall and Bonnie Lacroix. not act the way we would like to A when we become angry. are unkind. inconsiderate. rude. complaining. If we allow it. these traits can become habits and the habits can get in the way of achieving our goals. We can and do model our lives. to a certain extent on the people we admire. Have you ever stopped to think that you are a model for someone else. that you may be influencing the life of younger sisters. brothers. nieces. 4-H Club girls etc. 11 is important to sort out in your minds the values and traits you feel important to you as a person. What are some of the basic values which are worthwhile to cherish â€" Honesty. freedom. loyalty. honour. rever- ence for life? Have you set goals for yonrself‘.’ At the moment your goal may be for a short term, finish high school. marry. have children. lfyou marry young and have your children as soon as possible. those children are likely to be well on in 8 just the right amount of change in their live". the school by the time you are thirtyâ€"five. Life expectancy for women is seventyâ€"six. It is a long time between 3 and 75. more than halfa lifetime in which mothers my contribute to seeier and pursue their personal inter. 3515 as individuals. This represents a second lifelimg‘ Are you preparing for that second lifetime? Goals often need to be reassessed, or Changcd 33 circumstances change. Probably the greatest challenge facing you as women of the ’70’s will be your abliiu if, cope with change â€" rapid change. ' In his book Future Shock. Alvin Toffier .3“. “Some people achieve a certain sense ofserenit) {an in the midst of turmoil. not because they are int vine to emotion. but because they have found ways 251 search for that optimum may be what the ‘pur happiness’ is about." ‘ Concluding her talk to the girls. Mrs. Woo; 1rd them to enter fully into the discussions on care.» 5‘. pressing their own Opinions and listening to th, Hm. ions of the other girls. (if CAREER PANEL “Work for the sake of working is good“. t ‘mg this ethic. Miss Donna Hepburn introduced a r iifi‘ working women who explained briefly the ed inn necessary. the requirements and the rewards I iltJll own careers. Miss Hepburn said. “the work et hm been changed. for various reasons. by societ .n. clude “success”. But'“success" is now being chu ted by many young people who are entering the it” force. Attitudes of femaleâ€"male suitability to m are being challenged too. Your goal for the fut 'lii partly be determined by the values you hold a.) Are you looking for a means of giving? â€" a \ in ="i- press your own ideas? â€" a chance to travel? The panelists. Miss Carol Mallette â€" wori ‘ in international development as she studies for a l icrt degree at the University of Guelph. Miss Mall: nix worked in Mexico. India, Liberia and Ghana. ‘ :ds vised that girls interested in International wet t it thorough training and said that a sense of hu: ‘ l Mrs. Layne Paton, Supervisor ot Crafts, ext: “"5 techniques of Leathercraft to Barb Mainland ‘nd Linda Baxter.

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