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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 461430" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Sometimes we forget how much our kids DON'T know because they are so young. Studying it in school just isn't the same as hearing it from someone who really lived through those days. I grew up hearing my parents and grandparents talking about getting through the Depression and how difficult it was. I'm still working on my big family tree on Ancestry.com and some of the things you can find just on the official records from that period are heartbreaking. There are children who were farmed out to other relatives to raise because their parents couldn't afford to feed them and others who went to work as "servants" in other people's houses at age 13 or 14 to earn their own keep. Today's kids really have no idea.</p><p></p><p>My own kids studied the civil rights movement in school but of course are too young to have lived through it. For them, things have never been any different than they are now. My son and I got in to a big discussion about it one day and I explained in great detail how things were living in a small southern town in the late 50's/early 60's. He was shocked and horrified! He <em>thought</em> he knew but he really didn't have a clue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 461430, member: 1883"] Sometimes we forget how much our kids DON'T know because they are so young. Studying it in school just isn't the same as hearing it from someone who really lived through those days. I grew up hearing my parents and grandparents talking about getting through the Depression and how difficult it was. I'm still working on my big family tree on Ancestry.com and some of the things you can find just on the official records from that period are heartbreaking. There are children who were farmed out to other relatives to raise because their parents couldn't afford to feed them and others who went to work as "servants" in other people's houses at age 13 or 14 to earn their own keep. Today's kids really have no idea. My own kids studied the civil rights movement in school but of course are too young to have lived through it. For them, things have never been any different than they are now. My son and I got in to a big discussion about it one day and I explained in great detail how things were living in a small southern town in the late 50's/early 60's. He was shocked and horrified! He [I]thought[/I] he knew but he really didn't have a clue. [/QUOTE]
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