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Across the Fence:  GENERATION DIFFERENCES  |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
 Posted - Oct 24 2005 : 6:33:00 PM
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| if you had to list ONE difference that you see between YOU and your MOTHER .. and YOU and your GRANDMOTHER .. what would it be? |
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Linda Houston
True Blue Farmgirl
538 Posts
Linda
Lake Charles
Louisiana
USA
538 Posts |
Posted - Oct 24 2005 : 7:19:26 PM
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| I am more open-minded than my mother and tons more open than my grandmother. |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Oct 24 2005 : 8:17:39 PM
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I am more independant than my mother and more outdoorsy than my grandmother.
Jenny in Utah
Put all your eggs in one basket..and then watch that basket!! Mark Twain |
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Whimsy_girl
True Blue Farmgirl
576 Posts
USA
576 Posts |
Posted - Oct 24 2005 : 9:41:55 PM
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My mother and I are becoming more and more alike as years go by... her house is all brass and glass and she has pink carpet, where I go towards wood and neutral tones... my grandma is extremely high strung, and I am usually laid back.
you can be oh so smart, or you can be oh so positive. I wasted a lot of time being smart I prefer being positive. |
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Judes
True Blue Farmgirl
156 Posts
Jude
OH
USA
156 Posts |
Posted - Oct 25 2005 : 08:41:12 AM
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| My mom is not easy to get close to, whereas my motto is more like....douse them with love. I wish I had the opportunity to get to know my grandma more (she passed away when I was 18) but my looking back, she was very very quiet...I can hardley remember her saying a word (she rocked, and knit)...so I'd have to say that I am much more talkative than my grandma. |
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sqrl
True Blue Farmgirl
605 Posts
Melissa
Northern California
USA
605 Posts |
Posted - Oct 25 2005 : 09:17:47 AM
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My Mom and my Grandmom and myself are very close. There are generation differences but my Grandmom is very open minded and has an ineresting sense of humor she's always teasing someone, that how you know she likes you. My Mom is much more serious and quiet. I grew up with both of them being my Mom so I think I got a little of both but got a lot of my Mom in me. I say things somethimes that sound exactly like her.
Blessed Be
www.sqrlbee.com www.sisterhood.sqrlbee.com
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Fabulous Farm Femmes
True Blue Farmgirl
792 Posts
Diane
Lakebay, Tacoma
WA
792 Posts |
Posted - Oct 25 2005 : 11:48:36 AM
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| I come from an EXTREMELY disfunctional family so that's an easy one. I have one grandmothers love of home and craftyness, one grandmothers sense of order and love of children, I have my Mom's wry sense of humor and some of her intelligence. Everything else I have tried to make different, with some measured success.I think my daughters have all turned out more well adjusted than I did, they had a stable loving home with 2 parents...we will have to ask The PinUp Cowgirl to weigh in on this one too! |
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
2044 Posts
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Posted - Oct 25 2005 : 12:21:18 PM
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I waited to have children (34) , Mom had me at 23 and Gram had her first(of 7 !) at 22 right after she finished college in 1922!
Both were open minded, open hearted woman who tried not to judge and remained curious about the world and were always up for something new.
They both defied stereotypes for their generations and that's probably where I saw no problem choosing a career that was traditionally male. I lost both of them within a year of each other and I miss them so, it would have been nice for us all to have been women together.
with a happy heart |
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greyghost
True Blue Farmgirl
650 Posts
Lynn
Summerville
Georgia
USA
650 Posts |
Posted - Oct 27 2005 : 10:56:30 AM
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I am tougher, physically, then my mother. I love to be outdoors, she has never liked it much.
In her recent battle with Iritis, though, I have a new respect for my mother. She has had to endure a lot, and while fighting depression and the loss of her sight, is still fighting.
I am much like my grandmother, only I am not so quick with the temper as she was at my age. Now we are about equal. I think if the times had let her, Grandma may have chosen a life like mine. |
Edited by - greyghost on Oct 27 2005 10:59:04 AM |
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westfork woman
True Blue Farmgirl
554 Posts
Kennie Lyn
Emmett
Idaho
USA
554 Posts |
Posted - Oct 29 2005 : 10:51:13 AM
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I don't think I am as brave as my grandmother. In a time, (she married in 1908), when her sisters-in-laws were living in big houses, wearing corsets, and having at least some household help, my grandmother lived in a 2 room dog trot cabin, with a dirt floor, wore Levis, and lived a semi-nomadic life following a herd of cows. By her choice. It was a life my grandfather had chosen, but she could have changed that. She made lots of the decisions in their marriage, not always for the best. She rode colts, led pack strings, and drove a team on roads that could barely be called that. She had a quick temper, but a generous nature. She shared everything she had. She was outgoing and fun. In her 80's she still laughed and was very active. My mother in her 90's now, led an advertureous life. She married young, but the marriage fell apart, and she made a life for herself completely different than anyone in our family. She moved to town and educated herself and had a career. She remarried my father, and reinvented herself again. After her children came, she moved us back to our valley, and lived a small town life. She is still very active. She is more outgoing than I am. I am not as social as either of them. I like being alone, I am not sure either of them did. Both of them are more independent than I. My DH and I are for the most part partners, we both have say in what we are doing, but, he has the last call. My mother and grandmother always had the most say and the last word. It sometimes worked out for them, but not always.
Greetings from the morning side of the hill. |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Oct 30 2005 : 6:26:16 PM
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i loved all your answers ... did you ever hear the saying:
MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL
I AM MY MOTHER AFTER ALL |
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
2206 Posts |
Posted - Oct 30 2005 : 6:34:05 PM
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nope...thought it was who's the fairest of them all? And at age 49..it ain't me honey!
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
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