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If you could raise your kids again, what would you change?
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<blockquote data-quote="Estherfromjerusalem" data-source="post: 691338" data-attributes="member: 77"><p>Oh and Copa, by the way, what you wrote about them not talking about what happened to relatives -- that is shared by so many of our generation. My parents didn't talk about it ever when we were young. I was born into a family with no grandparents, and I thought that was the norm. I thought that people who had grandparents were the exception, because most of my parents' friends were refugees like themselves who had escaped, leaving their parents behind. I only discovered what had happened to my grandparents when I was about 20, and then I confronted my parents with that information and there was quite a hysterical emotional scene, my mother cried, it was awful. The whole subject is opened up now in society in general because our children (their grandchildren) ask questions and the distance in time has made it easier for my parents' generation to open up to their grandchildren.</p><p></p><p>And on a more positive note (although on the same subject): when my first grandchild, a girl, was born, we took a photo of the four of us -- my mother, myself, my daughter and my granddaughter -- and I just adore that photo. We had become a four-generation family. That was just AMAZING. I get tears in my eyes just remembering how I feel when I see that photo.</p><p></p><p>Today my mother is no longer with us. But that granddaughter is married and has two children, so we are still a four-generation family -- and "quelle horreur!" I am the matriarch, the old old lady, the great grandmother!!!</p><p></p><p>My difficult child is only two years older than my oldest granddaughter! Ha ha!</p><p></p><p>Love, Esther</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Estherfromjerusalem, post: 691338, member: 77"] Oh and Copa, by the way, what you wrote about them not talking about what happened to relatives -- that is shared by so many of our generation. My parents didn't talk about it ever when we were young. I was born into a family with no grandparents, and I thought that was the norm. I thought that people who had grandparents were the exception, because most of my parents' friends were refugees like themselves who had escaped, leaving their parents behind. I only discovered what had happened to my grandparents when I was about 20, and then I confronted my parents with that information and there was quite a hysterical emotional scene, my mother cried, it was awful. The whole subject is opened up now in society in general because our children (their grandchildren) ask questions and the distance in time has made it easier for my parents' generation to open up to their grandchildren. And on a more positive note (although on the same subject): when my first grandchild, a girl, was born, we took a photo of the four of us -- my mother, myself, my daughter and my granddaughter -- and I just adore that photo. We had become a four-generation family. That was just AMAZING. I get tears in my eyes just remembering how I feel when I see that photo. Today my mother is no longer with us. But that granddaughter is married and has two children, so we are still a four-generation family -- and "quelle horreur!" I am the matriarch, the old old lady, the great grandmother!!! My difficult child is only two years older than my oldest granddaughter! Ha ha! Love, Esther [/QUOTE]
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