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Skriven 2009-03-16 23:02:39 av Nancy Backus (1:3634/12.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Hap Newsom
Ärende: Oddz & Endzz
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-=> Quoting hap newsom to Nancy Backus on 03-12-09 11:47 <=-

 -> even... there's a just about 16 year spread between me and the youngest
 -> child... and about 13 years to the next younger...  so when they were 7
 -> and 10, I was 23 and finishing college...  (G)  Also in college were the
 -> next 2 or 3 kids down from me, so they were mostly off the hook, too... 
 -> By the time I was married, the youngest was almost 9...  But those two
 -> youngest, a girl and a boy (the baby), got away with a LOT more, and I
 -> don't think that the next two up caught much flak for them, either.. Of
 -> course, by then, Mommy had gone back to college to finish up her degree,
 -> so maybe that had something to do with it, too... ;)
 -> 
 hn> I'm six years older than my youngest sister. So we all
 hn> got to go through everything pretty much in order.

And there wasn't enough time for the parents to go soft on the youngers,
unlike my family...  The oldest five of us were within 7 years... we all
noted that the younger three, especially the youngest two, got away with
a lot more.

 -> I guess I don't much blame you.  We were more likely to get lectures
 -> than whuppings...  Those are a little easier to tune out... ;/
 -> 
 hn> My parents are really *bad* people...they just 
 hn> never had any idea how to *be* parents. Well
 hn> ok, maybe they were pretty bad, but not by 
 hn> evil intent.

I think you meant "aren't" in that first line?  My parents likewise
didn't really have much idea how to parent, their parents hadn't done
such a good job either... especially my mom's... and she got married at
age 17, hardly old enough to be a mother... she was barely 19 when I
arrived...  But Daddy, although he didn't get much from his dad, who was
career Navy and not home for much of his formative years, was mostly
raised by his mom, her sisters, and her mom (native Virginians all),
and, while not a wuss by any standards, was much more genteel than he
might otherwise have been...

ttyl     neb

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