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Originally Posted by WPOZZZ
Did you tell your kids that, and did they believe you?
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While kids may believe stories of hardship, they really don't get it. They think they had it tough.
There were a lot of poor folks where I grew up. Most did not know they/we were poor...as everyone was about the same until you went to high school. Kids mostly never left home except for church or school as there was always work to do...and too far to walk anywhere. The six miles home from elementary school after playing a basketball game in the 7th/8th grade at night after a game was about as far as I ever wanted to walk. Most of the books in our elementary school library were from 1919 when the school was built up until about the late 40's...so either classics...or people with lives that sounded a lot like ours. High School was a challenge for many as they were academically well prepared, but there was a definite class structure that was very difficult to overcome for most poor kids.
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