Thank you for sharing this.
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Janet H
Профиль VivelyStill evolving Boomer, cat mom & grandma, addicted to reading, gardening, chocolate, coffee. Retired editor, school counselor.
Girls needed more education. She resented having to clean, care for other families’ kids, was determined never to have to work again. Didn’t want grandpa to be a pastor, which he had studied to be, because he wouldn’t make enough money. So he worked @ post office. Taught Sunday school his whole life
Yes. One grandma had 7 kids, lived on a farm. I recall my dad said she made 3 or 4 loaves of bread every other day. Other grandma had only 1 child, my mom, never worked. Mother said grandma had to work for other families after 8th grade to help pay for her brothers to go to h.s. Her dad didn’t think