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Skriven 2014-10-03 20:09:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: exactitude 702
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 10-02-14  16:39 <=-

 RH> I thought TX was bad but DoDDS was worse. The kids in Frankfurt were
 RH> behind where the girls were working when we moved from TX. Moved to
 RH> Berlin 3 years later and the school there was about 3 weeks behind
 RH> Frankfurt. When we moved back to the States, Rachel was entering 9th
 RH> grade, Deborah 7th so we didn't have to worry about differences in a
 RH> school year schedule--until we moved from MA to AZ 6 months later.
 RH> Schools in AZ were pretty good, not super great but decent.
 
When schools are that bad, one can be more easily tempted to home
school, so as to have some control over the learning...

 RH>> Have you ever counted up how many different schools you attended?
 RH>> Both of our girls went to 8 different schools (not counting different
 RH>> buildings that were part of the same school system like Berlin
 RH>> Elementary and Junior/Senior High).
 NB>> I went to 6 different schools.  My siblings went to a maximum of 4
 NB>> different schools...  My son went to 3 different schools, all here...
 NB>> Daddy might have had your girls beat, though...

 RH> I suspect, from what you have said, your dad probably went to at least
 RH> a dozen (or more) different schools. It's not too much of a deal in
 RH> elementary school but moving even once in high school can be rough.
 
Quite likely...  Somewhere, I have a list of all the places he lived,
starting from when he was born... I'd have to dig it out...  He did
start college at 16, when they moved to NC, though, so that would have
cut out at least one school...  :)   And I know about moving during high
school..  I was entering 12th when we moved to Rochester.  Jessie was
going into 10th, and Lesesne into 9th...  
 
 NB>>> caboose baby girl, about 8 or 9 years later... Debby did think
 NB>>> that she had about 5 mothers...  ;)
 RH>> Debby probably didn't know who to listen to at times. (G)
 NB>> Lesesne tried to make it clear that she, and only she, was the Real
 NB>> Mommy...  (G)

 RH> Get that chain of command established early on!
 
Absolutely.  ;)

 NB>>> Debby wasn't so much a mommy to her
 NB>>> little sister as her older sisters had been to her...  :)
 RH>> She probably realised that it was better to have just one mommy to
 RH>> have to listen to. (G)
 NB>> Also, like your Rachel, she wasn't that much older than her younger
 NB>> sister... they're only about 2 years apart...  :)

 RH> Close enough to be close, or fight like cats, then be close again.

I wasn't privy to any of the latter... as far as I heard, they were
pretty happy together...  Of course, there were still those older
sisters, most of whom were still around...  ;)

 RH> When she was 5, one time Rachel told Deborah that she would be her
 RH> sister, but not her friend. A day or so later she relented and decided
 RH> to be her friend again. From her tone of voice, it was "I'll be your
 RH> sister only because I've no choice in the matter". Overall tho, they
 RH> were (and still are) quite close.

Sibling relationships can be interesting... at their best, they are a
true source of support for life..  :)

ttyl

... No-fat cream cheese is not food; it has no cream, it has no cheese.

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