Monday Fluff

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Monday Fluff
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Mon, 11-22-2010 - 9:59am

1. Will you be shopping on Black Friday or Cyber Monday?

2. "5 months of bills...." as the song says. Do you have a budget for the holidays or do you have "5 months of bills..."?

3. What is one food that most people make for Thanksgiving that you do not like?

4. Do you dress up for Thanksgiving?

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Registered: 05-13-2009
Sat, 11-27-2010 - 8:56am

What a bizzarre view of life. I had a good "full" childhood, a fabulous young adulthood and I'm very happy with who I am and where I am today. I have no wish to relive my childhood, and I don't find adult responsibilities so onerous.

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Registered: 10-01-2010
Sat, 11-27-2010 - 8:56am

Hey, better than doing it yourself.

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Registered: 12-07-2003
Sat, 11-27-2010 - 8:57am
I wish that I had had more experience in the kitchen before I moved out. Despite knowing how to follow a recipe and bake cookies, I hadn't really had a chance to cook often enough to know how to do some things efficiently. Like, I imagine if I had cooked more often, I might have been able to throw things together without using a recipe. That would have saved time and money when DH and I were poor college students.
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Sat, 11-27-2010 - 8:58am

Oh, my... why in such a bad mood this morning?

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Registered: 12-07-2003
Sat, 11-27-2010 - 8:58am
My mom did that for a family of four for years and years. She claims (and I have to admit is right) that the clothes are less wrinkled that way.
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Registered: 01-08-2009
Sat, 11-27-2010 - 8:58am
I will tell you what "kids growing up too fast" looks like IME. I have worked extensively with kiids with pretty messed up childhoods. It looks like 3 and 4 year olds in a daycare center debating whether a man slapping a woman around will get him arrested. They all know that if he slams her head into the wall or breaks her arm or cuts her he will, but they are unclear on whether a simple slap upside the head is wrong. It looks like a seven year old who goes with the family to get a meal at the local soup kitchen and already knows to ask for extra hard boiled eggs to take home because he and his siblings will be huungry in the morning and there is nothing in the house to eat. It looks like a nine year old who never invites her friends to sleep over on Friday night because her father will probably come home drunk and it will be embarrassing. It looks like an eleven year old boy who shows up at a ball game with no uniform because his Momm left the clothes in the drier at the apartment complex and somebody stole them to sell for two bucks to buy a pack of cigarettes. It looks like a fourten year old who thinks that "uncle" means your Mom's latest boyfriend who might rape you, too. It has nothing to do with a child knowing that peanut butter cookies need to be baked for 11 minutes at 350?
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Sat, 11-27-2010 - 9:00am

That's nice. I didn't go to Disney more than that as a kid, maybe 3 times. My parents brought us to other places, like Hawaii.

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Sat, 11-27-2010 - 9:01am

To me, kids growing up too fast is used in two ways. One is being exposed to pain and suffering and stress too young--such as a child who loses their mother and has to take on the role because if she doesn't, nobody else will. The combination of the emotional trauma and the responsibility, without the benefit of such a crucial relationship. Or it is used by parents who enjoy being needed and are not prepared to find their own identity when the kids are self-sufficient.

It is not, IMO, applicable to children who have the capacity to be self-sufficient in some ways but who do not have to be and have the emotional support, financial support and even physical support of parents behind them as a safety net.

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