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: 01-15-2006
Sat, 11-27-2010 - 9:38am

your memories as a kid make me laugh, i remember being a kid dressed in pjs ready for bed while mom and dad enjoyed the company of neighbors at the kitchen table.

 

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Registered: 01-15-2006
Sat, 11-27-2010 - 9:54am

thank you.

and i would agree with that picture, however sad it might look.

 

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Sat, 11-27-2010 - 10:20am
I did not list all the possible scenarios that could be coveed under "growing up too fast." My mother was a loving mother but totally exhaused most of the time from working two or thre jobs to make sure we had food on the table. I have recently reconnected with a daughter of a friend of mine whom I went to grad school with. The friend was diagnosed with breast cancer when her daughter was five and died when the daughter was thirteen. Her childhood was pretty rough as you might imagine, and even though her Dad did the best he could, earning a living, emotionally and phycically supporting. The family, Sara grew up in fear that her mother was going to die, and later, by the time she was ten, she KNEW her mother was going to die but both her parents and younger brother lived in denial of what was to Sara "fact." I would say Sara grew up too soon. One of the grad students who came to our Thanksgiving dinner shared some stories of growing up with a schizophrenic mother, and even though he told them in a light-hearted and amusing way, it was clear that he grew up too fast. I cannot think of why a 3 or 4 year old would bbe routinely getting his own breakfst unless the parent was ill or exhausted from working two jobs or something like that, but if that is the norm in the family then I agree it is quite likely that child is not getting his eotional, and possibly even physical, needs met.
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Sat, 11-27-2010 - 10:39am

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Sat, 11-27-2010 - 10:49am

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Sat, 11-27-2010 - 10:56am

The Singer sergers that I'm most famaliar with are from the 80s and 90s.

The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett

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Sat, 11-27-2010 - 10:56am

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Sat, 11-27-2010 - 10:58am

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Sat, 11-27-2010 - 10:59am

True but I was excited to learn that my old child's machine actually had a model #.

The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett

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Sat, 11-27-2010 - 11:06am

My definition of "growing up too fast":

Kids wearing suggestive/adult clothing, makeup in young girls, dating too young(before middle teens), in general getting to engage in behaviors and privleges that are too old for them but not having the responsibility or maturity to handle them or their consequences.

Chris

The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett

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