What a horrible testament - I didn't realize that youth was so jaded in the 60s.
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My great-great-grandmother. She was an Indian and, at the time, such a marriage was not acceptable. I would like to hear her take on it all.
I feel for you and your grandchild. I have an adult son with brittle Type 1 diabetes. Horrible disease.
The older I get, the less time I put forth---I know bad bad me.
Having a disabled hubby doesn't help matters---feels like I have little time for myself. I'm his doer of what he can't do, his calendar, and his memory.
The latter is a challenge since, at my age, it's hard to remember what I got going on for myself.
Recently my granddaughter was diagnosed with Junior Diabetes so I'm getting involved there and I actually started a social group here (Disabilities/Special Needs/Chronic Health Conditions - E-Cigarette Forum). It lets me do something while still hanging around the house.
I'm getting involved in JDRF walk that happens in October.
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First off I have to agree with Beebop, were the kids applauding because some one tried to kill President Reagan or were they applauding that he did'nt get killed ?, if it was because someone tried to kill him, then I think that's disgusting.
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I was a little girl in the 60s - unfortunately my most vivid memories involve how to tag along with my teenage cousin because she was having more "fun" than I was without her shooing me off.
I never realized that the youth of the "love" generation could be so hateful - I thought that was a more current phenomena - of course there were riots, etc. in the 60s - I guess because I was so young I didn't recognize it- we are our own worst enemy.
I never realized that the youth of the "love" generation could be so hateful - I thought that was a more current phenomena - of course there were riots, etc. in the 60s - I guess because I was so young I didn't recognize it- we are our own worst enemy.
The person I would most like to meet is Jesus, I would ask him what he thinks of the world as it is now compared to how it was when he was alive. Also President Dwight D Eisinhower, as many countries are now trying to say the holocaust never happened, he witnessed it first hand, I'd love to hear what he would have to say to these countries.
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I was of that generation. I don't think we were hateful..I think some kids reacted to the news like that because they saw him as the enemy to peace/love and all that crap..Ronnie Raygun and all
Kids are stupid and don't have use of a full brain. (that is true by the way) The empathy factor is only part there in a lot of kids and they are herd animals. If one yelled yea! then a lot more joined in. Taken one by one..they wouldn't have behaved that way.
No the kids of the 60's and the kids of the 1880's 1940's and 2010's are no different..they are all a step from Lord of the Flies. It's the nature of the beast.
It's up to us as adults to train the right and give them values. I grew up just fine!
Kids are stupid and don't have use of a full brain. (that is true by the way) The empathy factor is only part there in a lot of kids and they are herd animals. If one yelled yea! then a lot more joined in. Taken one by one..they wouldn't have behaved that way.
No the kids of the 60's and the kids of the 1880's 1940's and 2010's are no different..they are all a step from Lord of the Flies. It's the nature of the beast.
It's up to us as adults to train the right and give them values. I grew up just fine!
Well said MaryKay, my boys were both products of the 60's and they both turned out great, it just kind of shocked me that kids in a classroom would applaud any president getting shot at no matter what decade it was, but like you said kids will follow the leader, most not even knowing what thier doing. By the way I like your new avatar.
What was your favorite thing to do as a kid?
Mine was climbing trees..I loved being high up and reading a book!
Mine was climbing trees..I loved being high up and reading a book!
being outside with my collie,, he wasn't allowed inside... I use to come in the house gobble down my food at meal times then run back outside.. My parents started making me sit at the table until everyone was finished... it was just abuse......
As a kid.. take a cup of sugar and hide behind the rubarb row and chow down...
Or take my horse and go fishing
Or take my horse and go fishing
I was a wild girl child. I'd climb trees (or anything else) in a dress. Ride my bike slightly farther then strictly allowed, Run around washes (for anyone not desert raised a wash is a 90% of the time dry river bed) collecting pretty rocks or playing desert pirate. I'd dig glorious pits for imaginary tigers, and go swimming whenever I could finagle my folks to let me go to the public pool. I also found time to raid my fathers extensive personal library of dusty out of date sci-fi mags.
As a little girl, I loved playing dress up, my mom would go to rummage sales and pick up pretty dresses and hats for me to play in, one time she went to a rummage sale at the school down the road from us and got 2 really pretty cinderella type dresses that I loved, come to find out a neighbor lady had put them on the sale and when she saw I had them she wanted them back for her 2 girls to play dress up, said she did'nt think of that before she sent them to the sale but mom stood her ground and said no so I let the 2 girls come over and play with me so we could all enjoy those dresses. I also liked to play in the dirt piles with my brother, on a vacant lot by us, we would build roads and tunnels all through them and then set up little towns and drive our little trucks and car's all over them. What fun.
Count me in with the tree climbers! Probably helped that my folks were both afraid of heights too! I'd be perched either at the tiptop of the tree or on the roof with a Nancy Drew mystery and a canteen.
What scares you? I mean besides the big stuff..
I am scared of waterbugs..they terrify me! If you aren't from the south..think of roaches on steroids.
My other thing is needles! That's really dumb concidering I have yo give myself insulin every day. But then I am controlling the needle.
I am scared of waterbugs..they terrify me! If you aren't from the south..think of roaches on steroids.
My other thing is needles! That's really dumb concidering I have yo give myself insulin every day. But then I am controlling the needle.
Needles would fall in my top 2 as well. I can't even watch them give a shot on TV... so you can imagine how much I enjoy it in person! Stems from childhood illnesses and is exasperated by having veins that "look" easy. I'll ask them to please, pretty please draw blood from my wrist, but noooooo.... it's taken as a challenge that they'll be the one that gets a vein on the first go around. Never happens. I've had nurses call someone else over to see how easily my veins roll and collapse, all while I'm starring trying not to think about it.
My number one fear would have been running out of analogs if you'd asked a few months ago. I always had a spare pack hidden away and would go into a panic if I didn't. Now it's running out of battery power and juice!
My number one fear would have been running out of analogs if you'd asked a few months ago. I always had a spare pack hidden away and would go into a panic if I didn't. Now it's running out of battery power and juice!
I lived in Louisiana, yep waterbugs are roaches on steroids! I am scared of wasp only because I have been stung 5 times, not by them landing on me, nope I step on them, 2 of those times was in my house.
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