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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 444745" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I know I'm one of the older ones here but I've thought about it a lot and I kind of see how our parents got to be that way, over-protective on some things to the point of being silly. My parents were raised by <u>their</u> parents! And my grandparents generation was the one where most families lost one or more children to diseases and disorders that they may not have even fully understood. My father's mother was one of five siblings but then two of them died within the same year. I've been digging in to the geneology thing and when you look at the old hand-written death records from those days, most of the deaths were babies and small children, not old people! It was very common to see huge families, a dozen or more children born, but sometimes only half of them survived to adulthood. I can't even imagine some of the weird, bizarre things my mother must have been told by <em>her</em> mother! They were so anxious to protect us that they thought it was OK to scare the h*ll out of us if that's what it took to keep us safe.</p><p></p><p>On the one hand, they obsessed about silly stuff like swallowing chewing gum. On the other hand, we were the generation that roamed the neighborhood all day and had almost complete freedom to do whatever we wanted to as long as we showed up for meals and came in when the street lights came on!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 444745, member: 1883"] I know I'm one of the older ones here but I've thought about it a lot and I kind of see how our parents got to be that way, over-protective on some things to the point of being silly. My parents were raised by [U]their[/U] parents! And my grandparents generation was the one where most families lost one or more children to diseases and disorders that they may not have even fully understood. My father's mother was one of five siblings but then two of them died within the same year. I've been digging in to the geneology thing and when you look at the old hand-written death records from those days, most of the deaths were babies and small children, not old people! It was very common to see huge families, a dozen or more children born, but sometimes only half of them survived to adulthood. I can't even imagine some of the weird, bizarre things my mother must have been told by [I]her[/I] mother! They were so anxious to protect us that they thought it was OK to scare the h*ll out of us if that's what it took to keep us safe. On the one hand, they obsessed about silly stuff like swallowing chewing gum. On the other hand, we were the generation that roamed the neighborhood all day and had almost complete freedom to do whatever we wanted to as long as we showed up for meals and came in when the street lights came on! [/QUOTE]
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