When happening upon someone who's clearly putting him/herself at risk, I like David Seng's advice when he writes- << I usually opt for the "teach by asking questions" approach. >> And Steve Cramer's advice on using the "I" word rather than "you". This approach and the use of fliers/posters in the boathouse seem, to me, to have the best cance of reaching people. OTOH - My luck at getting through to people using any technique at all has been remarkably poor, over a long lifetime of trying to get people to stop smoking, reduce alcohol intake, lose weight, exercise - even when they were actually suffering in terms of *pain* etc because they needed to make those lifestyle changes. Seems about half of them resented me, the other half patronized me, and pretty much everybody ignored me. Not a good record at all. So what do I know? - Bill *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Nov 03 1999 - 05:41:32 PST
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