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30 Weber St. N., Wateri00 @@ m Year end clearanc PAGE A8 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1993 In every case it was found that much earlier in life, subtle warning signs occurred, but were neglected or not recognized as a result of poor insight or insensitivity of the parents. "Men who nobody knows" more often commit suicide, become schizophrenic, function less fully and die sooner than men who love and are loved as unique persons. When a man‘s self is hidden from everybody, it is also much hidden from himself and permits entrophy to gnaw into his being with his clear knowledge. He is then prone to illness which usually takes him by surprise. (Geoff Fellows operates the Human Resource Development Institute P.O. Box 22077 Cambridge, NR 8E3, Tel. 623â€"0283, providing effectiveness training for business and industry.) I read an interesting theory on why women outlive so many men. In a nutshell, it‘s because many men have mistaken ideas about the sort of image they think they should present to the world. As a result, they keep their emotions, their doubts, fears and grief bottled up inside them. They become, according to Dr. Sydney Jourard, "men whom nobody knows." He says there is no convincing biological evidence to prove that female tissue is intrinsically more durable than that of most males, and the most likely place to look for an explanaâ€" tion of the perplexing gender differential in mortality, is in the transactions between a man and his environment. The doctor says that the male role, as personally and socially defined, requires one to appear tough, objective, striving, achieving, unsentimental and unexpressive. But seeming is not being. If a man is tenderâ€"hearted (behind his persona), if he weeps or shows perceived weakness, he will be viewed as queer and as a wimp by others; and he will cerâ€" tainly regard himself as inferior to other men. A man is quite capable of responding to the perpetual play of life‘s events with a broad range of feelings. His thoughts, wishâ€" es, and fantasies know no bounds, save those set by his biology and history. But the male role, and the male‘s selfâ€"structure will not allow him to acknowledge or express the entire breadth of his inner experience, to himself or others. Here we have to recognize that there are racial differences, in that men of the Angloâ€"saxon race tend to be more taciturn than those of the Latin race, but the maleâ€"female mortality rates are about the same. * We know from polygraph tests that when people are relucâ€" tant to disclose, they are actually doing more work than when and it is unrelieved stress that can finally kill. In the same tests, it was shown that women are much more willing to disclose facts about themselves â€"â€" to open up and talk about things that a man simply will not talk about. But, of course, this can vary according to a man‘s upbringing and his father‘s role model. In interviewing men in hospital suffering from heart ailâ€" ments, cancer, stomach ulcers and so on, it was found without exception, that these are men whom nobody knows. They are people who place greater importance upon being respectable roleâ€"players than upon their happiness, selfâ€"integrity, or health. .« Don‘t hide your inner self 746â€"4268 PERSPECTIVE SALE > 80% â€" snugglers â€" read by themselves. To participate in the Readâ€"Aâ€" Thon, simply report to the Literacy Coalition the titles of any books read over the summer. For each book read, a sticker will placed on Project Read hosted a "reading tent" in which children were read to by local story tellers, including Bill Dunn, Dawna Saba, Cathy Huras, Saman Farazdaghi, Debbie Pigeon, Marilyn Malton and Denise Moberly. Visitors to the reading tent could either sit and listen to the scheduled storytellers, or take a break from all the festiâ€" val activities to sit quietly and This year‘s Readâ€"Aâ€"Thon was launched last Saturday at the Sounds of Summer Festival, with local celebrities such as Fran Papâ€" pert (Romper Room‘s Miss Fran) and the Performers for Literacy (local actors who volunteer their time to promote the "glamor" of reading) were on hand to help get the event underway. Throughout Sounds of Summer, The Readâ€"Aâ€"Thon event was introduced to Waterloo Region in 1990 as part of the Literacy Coaliâ€" tion‘s celebration of International Literacy Year. The inaugural event saw 1,200 books read by Waterloo Region residents. Last year, 3,000 books were read, and Middleton hopes at least 4,000 will be read this sumâ€" "I would really like to see 4,000 books read this summer," Middleâ€" n this pingâ€"zapâ€"beep world of Ivideo games and other elecâ€" tronic home entertainment gadgets, some children may be growing up not knowing the wonâ€" ders of literature. But this summer, as in the past three summers, the Waterloo Region Literacy Coalition is encouraging area residents to turn off the gizmos and "wrap themâ€" selves in reading". To encourage children and their parents to keep reading while school‘s out, the Literacy Coaliâ€" tion‘s Project Read program is again holding its annual "Readâ€"Aâ€" "‘Anyone can participate," says tor Lauri Middleton. "We‘re just trying to get people to read during the summer. And, hopefully, we get parents reading with their kids, and instilling in them the value of reading." There‘s no time like the | summer time for reading "That would be incrediâ€" The Family Literacy Kits, which were also available at the Sounds of Summer Reading Tent, include children‘s books, bookmarks, and reading and learning tips pamâ€" phlets for parents. are a guide to help parents work with their kids with reading and writing, and help them begin to gain all those skills from a very young age," Middleton says. The tips offered include: ©When your baby is less than one year old, talk to him or her â€" sing, whisper and make different they can either phone the book titles in to us and we‘ll write up a sticker and put in on the ribbon, or they can go to one of the several drop boxes we have at libraries and bookstores," Middleton says. We‘re also going to be touring around with the Literacy Family (lifeâ€"sized, stuffed "people"), going to libraries which request us to set up a display. And at those disâ€" plays, we‘ll be giving out Family previous years, has been as long as two or three city blocks. "Whatever books they read over the summer, from June 26 to Sept. 8, which is World Literacy Day and the end of the Readâ€"Aâ€"Thon, Fran Pappert (Romper Room‘s Miss Fran) read to children Saturday at the Sounds of Summer Festival during the official kickâ€"off to Proâ€" ject Read‘s annual Readâ€"Aâ€"Thon. Deborgh Crandall photo the "Ribbon of Reading", which, in _ sounds, and show the baby picture "We â€"want to emphasize the responsibility of parents in their child‘s learning. The school‘s can‘t do it all, especially when the value of reading is not inherent in the child‘s family. There‘s only so far the schools can go." For further information about the Readâ€"Aâ€"Thon, or to report the titles of books you have read this summer, call the Waterloo Region Literacy Coalition at 884â€"1318. shapes. Play counting games with him or her, visit the library freâ€" quently, and make sure you have plenty of books at home. _ toys they play with, teach them "in, out, up and down"; ©When your child is two to three ygusfl.ndtothdfldnndnk him or her questions about what you are reading, such as "What do you think will happen next?", and show the child written words for things he or she says; @When your child is three to five years old, give him or her books about numbers, ABCs, colors and sounds, and show the baby picture books while talking about them; @When your child is between sn cs games, books and beginning word books, reinforce the names of various items such as the names of the