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- From: cathy@octel.com (Cathy Kearns)
- Subject: Re: Things my parents did right, personal.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.183916.23037@octel.com>
- Organization: Octel Communications Inc., Milpitas Ca.
- References: <1992Nov18.155953.4088@schbbs.mot.com> <1992Nov19.170852.24993@ast.saic.com> <1992Nov20.233638.2533367@locus.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:39:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.233638.2533367@locus.com> judy@locus.com (Judy Leedom Tyrer) writes:
- >While my Mom didn't have the strength and courage to break away from the life
- >that had entrapped her, she did have the wisdom to teach us not to make this
- >mistake in our lives, but to see the world and make our own way in it. She
- >not only let us go, she practically shoved us away. I will always thank
- >her for that.
-
- My mother had her first child the day before she turned twenty, and her fourth
- child just after she turned 25. Being a housewife and mother was expected of
- women in the sixties, and she tried to fit right in. My mother didn't really
- have the patience and personality to be a stay-at-home mom, but she gave it
- her best shot. All the while though, she pushed her three daughters... you
- can do anything...math, science, newspaper editor, sports, anything... She
- treated her four children exactly the same, we all (son and daughters) could
- sew, mow the lawn, clean the house, whip up dinner, lay cement. At sometime
- in our lives we all got hammers for our birthdays.
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- My older sister is the president of her own insurance brokrage firm. I'm
- a software engineer, my younger sister is a math teacher and track coach,
- my little brother is an industrial engineer. My mother still isn't sure
- what she wants to be when she grows up, but she's got to be proud of how
- her kids turned out.
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- Cathy
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