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After a nice long chat with my grandmother this morning, I was thinking about being a wife/mother in the 1950’s. I was pondering how different it must have been compared to the lives of busy moms today. They didn’t have to lecture their children to keep their text’s to a minimum for the cell phone bill, monitor their MySpace page, set up web blockers, check show ratings on the TiVo, review/preview the latest video games for violence…. The list goes on and on. It made me think how all this technology really ads to a parents work load. We need a radar more sophisticated than the latest model GPS to keep on top of it all!
Was life really any easier back then? Chores and cooking took much longer, as did errands (as a lot of women back then didn’t even drive, like my grandmother.) There were still the dangers of today; Alcohol, peer pressures, drugs, smoking, gangs… You still had to know what your children were up to and who they were with....
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