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02-19-2011, 05:52 PM
#62
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Baileyville, Maine
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Originally Posted by pkary
Originally Posted by stitchinwitch
Blue Cheese dressing??? What is wrong with BLUE CHEESE dressing?? We are having so many health problems because what we eat too many preservatives and genetically altered foods. More kids are ADHD and autistic. It is the environment.
Times have certainly changed for sure. However, I think, in our quest to keep our kids safe, we have allowed too much freedom to be taken away from them. Mothers, or Dads, are not at home afterschool, toys are too educational to be much fun, and we've let family dinnertime slip away. There really is no such thing as "quality time" that can make up for "just chillin" time - one on one, with your kids. It really is the time you spend with your kids, not what you do together, that counts in the end.
02-19-2011, 06:26 PM
#65
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 164
Love it - brings back memories!! Recently asked a high school volunteer at work to type envelopes for me on the electric typewriter - she looked at it and asked me what it was!!! Then I had to show her how to use it and she asked me where the delete button was!!!! Too funny!
02-19-2011, 07:03 PM
#66
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Illinois & Wisconsin
Posts: 824
Amen! Also, the girls only had dresses. We played in dresses and then went home got washed up and a clean dress for dinner. I wore hand me down clothes. Some fit some didn't. The nuns refused to let me finish my catecism classes for First Communion because my dresses were too short. (They were all I had.) I was a cheerleader in high school (Catholic High School). We had to walk to most of our games some were over 6 miles away. If the family had a car they only had one. Sometimes someone picked us up sometimes not. In high school when we started wearing blue jeans we had to buy boys jeans. They didn't make jeans for girls. I wore a uniform to school. One year the senior girls ripped and tore their uniforms on the last day they had to wear them. (We stopped at beginning of May as they were wool and hot.) When the nuns found out about the torn uniforms they made the girls pin them, sew them whatever they could do and made them wear them till graduation in June. That was the last time any girls did that!
We went roller skating at roller rinks with four wheels on each skate. We went ice skating on the frozen lakes and ponds. We had an "ice" box for a refrigerator and once a week the "ice man" came and delivered a block of ice that went into the top of the "ice box" to keep our food cool. Our washing machine was a wringer type with two big metal basins to rinse clothes in. We hung our clothes on lines to dry. My mother washed clothes on Monday (all day), sprinkled the clothes and rolled them up for a few hours and iron EVERYTHING including our underwear and sheets. Oh, yeah!!! Those were the days my friend.
We went roller skating at roller rinks with four wheels on each skate. We went ice skating on the frozen lakes and ponds. We had an "ice" box for a refrigerator and once a week the "ice man" came and delivered a block of ice that went into the top of the "ice box" to keep our food cool. Our washing machine was a wringer type with two big metal basins to rinse clothes in. We hung our clothes on lines to dry. My mother washed clothes on Monday (all day), sprinkled the clothes and rolled them up for a few hours and iron EVERYTHING including our underwear and sheets. Oh, yeah!!! Those were the days my friend.
02-19-2011, 08:57 PM
#69
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Upstate New York
Posts: 1,415
I was born in the early 80's (GASP! Did I really just say that out loud!?!?) and I can say, I was fortunate enough to have an old fashioned Dad who abided by these guidelines. I pray that I can raise my girls half as well.
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