What decade(s) were your kids born in?
pekemom
7 years ago
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Comments (7)I grew up in the 60's in LA. It was all about surfing & the war (protest songs & peace songs). The Beach Boys were huge. The Beattles came on the scene in '64 (I think?). 'Inagodadavida' was the huge underground song. In 1963, the Kingsmen recorded Louie Louie & we sang & danced to that song a million times. Protest songs were 'Eve of Destruction' & 'One Tin Soldier' &, of course, the BIG ONE...Arlo Gunthrie's 'Alice's Restaurant' (You can get anything you want...at Alice's Restaurant...) He still performs the song each year on Thanksgiving Day in Stockbridge, MA just like the song...in the Church. Jefferson Starship recorded 'Miracles'. Wolfman Jack, on KRLA, once played 'Miracles' over & over for 24 hours! Our dream cars were "pony cars" like the Pontiac GTO & a Chevy Camaro Z-28 with a 454. We all carried surfboards in our cars...sticking out the window or tied to the roof. We wore boots (Nancy Sinatra 'These Boots Are Made for Walking') & our skirts got shorter & shorter. Our hair got longer & longer. We used to iron our hair on the ironing board to make it completely straight. In the LA area, we cruised Pasadena Boulevard & Whittier Boulevard on Friday nights. Whiskey-A-Go-Go was the place to see & be seen. Eight-track tapes were THE thing to have in your car for tunes. Bonanza was huge (Sunday nights). Jackie Kennedy did her White House Tour & President Kennedy didn't watch it on TV 'because Bonanza was on! In the later part of the decade, we attended way too many funerals of our classmates who'd come home from 'Nam in a flag-covered coffin (25% of the boys in my graduating class). So, we cried together a lot. I graduated in '68...the year MLK was killed. So was Bobby Kennedy. I've always considered myself fortunate to have spent my teen years in the '60's on the beaches of southern CA. Until the "War" ruined our innocence it was an idealic time & place to be a teen. We entered the '70's a much more subdued crowd....See MoreWhat season were you born in?
Comments (49)these were great, i love the topics you all come up with. i was born in march in a snowstorm, my dad said it was a pain in the you no what (yes swear words he always swears lol hes 72 still allowed) and he still says im a pita to the day! lol but i love em to death. i love all the seasons but winter in ny never seems to end and this year we had no spring! more info than ya needed huh but i loved all youre stories....See MoreWhere did you locate the space/s for your kids to do homework?
Comments (15)It really depends on the child's study style. My older son has ADHD. When he first started doing homework in kindergarten he found the kitchen really distracting. I tried moving him to the dining room but he found the noise from the kitchen to be too much even though he couldn't see it. I ended up buying him a desk that had lots of storage space and stocked it with everything he needed for homework including an electric pencil sharpener. He's now and the third grade and gets him homework done without me having to ride him. I go over his assignments downstairs before he does them and then he shows me that he's done them afterward. If he needs help then he brings his work downstairs and I help him. My younger son starts kindergarten and I suspect he will need for me to be more hands on with him. I plan to make a space downstairs for him to do his work. Basically, I believe that there's no one size fits all answer and you won't really know until your child has homework. Furthermore, their needs can change as they get older. For example, when my older son started school he didn't have any homework on the computer and now he has school work to do on the computer almost everyday. We've had to make accommodations for that....See MoreHow Old Were You When Your First Child Was Born?
Comments (86)My husband's mother had grown children....maybe even a grandchild or two, when she married his father, who had grandchildren...probably even great grandchildren, and after they got married, they had six children in six years. She was 38 when he was born....four more after him, and his dad was 68, and 72 when his last was born. The baby had spina bifida and died shortly after birth, and his mother died from breast cancer a couple of years later. I was almost 34....had no trouble getting pregnant and no morning sickness or complications during pregnancy and only gained 25 lb. Had a c section and was in the hospital for five days, and lost all but 7 when I got out. My mother, who was 42, also said she never had any nausea or other problems. My mother was 42 but probably looked older. She was thin and had premature gray hair. After I was born, in a Catholic hospital, by the way, she didn't see me for several hours. One of the sisters came into her room, which was a room with 4 beds, and said, "Have any of you had a baby and not seen it?" My mother said, "I haven't seen mine." The sister said, "Hmph!! No old woman like you has had a baby!" My mother said, "Well, I guess I ought to know if I had a baby or not!" I am quite sure my father was there, and he was a very over bearing type of person, and I can just imagine smoke coming out of his ears, because shortly, the mother superior came running into the room....my mother said her rosary or whatever she had hanging on her outfit (sorry, not Catholic...I don't know) "just a'jangling". She said, "Yes that is Mrs. Stout's baby.....give it to her right now!!"...See More
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