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> . The people who pine for how it used to be areI guess it depends on what our childhood was like. Unless it was winter, we
> seldom the people who had to live through how it used to be.
>
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were always outside. Riding bikes, building treehouses, playing army (the
girls were nurses who were often captured by the enemy), playing Indians,
pretending we were deer, reading books in the chokecherry tree, being a
scientist and carrying around my notebook everywhere, playing store, playing
house, making "piggies" with mud wrapped in maple leaves, games like red
rover, kickball, football, freeze tag, "pies", having races. We asked
permission to go to the park or for a longish walk, otherwise we were always
in ear shot.
Maybe some people romanticize the past. Maybe others really did have a good
time.
Mary J
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In a message dated 1/8/03 8:00:29 AM, mc1mommy@... writes:
<< Maybe some people romanticize the past. Maybe others really did have a
good
time. >>
Lots of childhoods are great, but how were the parents doing?
I'm not talking about kids who had fun childhoods. My yard was two acres of
apple trees! That was pretty cool, especially on irrigation days in the
summer.
But groups of people who try to re-create some chosen idealized past decade
as though that were the height of and the last bastion of civilization
(people wanting it to be like the 1880's, like the 1940's, whatever) are
rarely looking at the bad realities.
There is a date beyond which some Christian homeschoolers don't want books.
I don't remember but I've seen it a couple of times. And there was someone
advocating kids not reading any children's books written after 1960 or
something. Those books were dusty, lame, racist and sexist. "And?" That's
what they want. They want girls kept in their places, for one thing.
Sandra
<< Maybe some people romanticize the past. Maybe others really did have a
good
time. >>
Lots of childhoods are great, but how were the parents doing?
I'm not talking about kids who had fun childhoods. My yard was two acres of
apple trees! That was pretty cool, especially on irrigation days in the
summer.
But groups of people who try to re-create some chosen idealized past decade
as though that were the height of and the last bastion of civilization
(people wanting it to be like the 1880's, like the 1940's, whatever) are
rarely looking at the bad realities.
There is a date beyond which some Christian homeschoolers don't want books.
I don't remember but I've seen it a couple of times. And there was someone
advocating kids not reading any children's books written after 1960 or
something. Those books were dusty, lame, racist and sexist. "And?" That's
what they want. They want girls kept in their places, for one thing.
Sandra