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- From: sg@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM (Susanne Gilliam)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: How to help the "oops" of a family...
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 16:54:39 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.171059.24993@hubcap.clemson.edu> <4570293@hpfcdc.fc.hp.com> <BxoBLz.JnE@inews.Intel.COM>
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- In article <BxoBLz.JnE@inews.Intel.COM> vnoronha@dagwood.intel.com (Valerie Noronha) writes:
- >
- >In article <4570293@hpfcdc.fc.hp.com>, janem@hpfcdc.fc.hp.com (Jane
- >Marcus) writes:
- >So I believe that having the
- >|> knowledge of being unplanned was a bad thing. I would urge parents
- >|> to keep this information to themselves.
- >
- >Not necessarily. Like any other piece of information, it depends how it
- >is presented. I also was an "oops"--the sixth child when my mom was 40
- >and dad was 44. I remember my mom being honest with me and telling me....
- >
- >Valerie
-
- I agree with Valerie; I was an "oops", due only 17 months after the birth
- of my older sister. My mom was always very clear on the subject -- she was
- horrified when she found out she was pregnant again. She always told me
- that she kept thinking "but I already have a baby". However, she was
- equally clear about the fact that by the time I was born, she was as
- thrilled as she was for either of my (planned) sister's births. Plus, I
- had the good fortune to be a "good", "easy" baby so her recounting of my
- first year of life is suffused with a rosy glow of happiness that is never
- as evident as when she talks about my sisters' babyhoods.
- I appreciated my mom's candor, given that it had a "happy" ending, and
- she clearly meant every word. I don't remember a time when I didn't know
- I was an "accident", but I equally don't remember a time when it bothered
- me in the least. I knew I was loved, and the fact that I wasn't expected
- didn't change the fact that I'd been loved from birth. And, if she hadn't
- been truthful with me early on, it would have been harder, I think, when
- I got older and started to do some arithmetic on my own.
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