Most of our generation of 60+ were
HOMESCHOOLED in many ways: 

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE .
  “If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.”

  2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
“You better pray that will come out of the carpet.”

  3. My father taught me about TIME TRAVEL
  “If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you into the middle of next week!”

  4. My father taught me LOGIC.
  ” Because I said so, that’s why.”

  5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC .
“If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you’re not going to the store with me.”

  6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
“Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you’re in an accident.”

  7. My father taught me IRONY.
“Keep crying, and I’ll give you something to cry about.”

  8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.
“Shut your mouth and eat your supper.”

  9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
“Just you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!”

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
“You’ll sit there until all that spinach is gone.”

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Most of our generation of 60+ were
HOMESCHOOLED in many ways: 

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE .
  “If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.”

  2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
“You better pray that will come out of the carpet.”

  3. My father taught me about TIME TRAVEL
  “If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you into the middle of next week!”

  4. My father taught me LOGIC.
  ” Because I said so, that’s why.”

  5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC .
“If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you’re not going to the store with me.”

  6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
“Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you’re in an accident.”

  7. My father taught me IRONY.
“Keep crying, and I’ll give you something to cry about.”

  8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.
“Shut your mouth and eat your supper.”

  9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
“Just you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!”

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
“You’ll sit there until all that spinach is gone.”

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Most of our generation of 60+ were
HOMESCHOOLED in many ways: 

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE .
  “If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.”

  2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
“You better pray that will come out of the carpet.”

  3. My father taught me about TIME TRAVEL
  “If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you into the middle of next week!”

  4. My father taught me LOGIC.
  ” Because I said so, that’s why.”

  5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC .
“If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you’re not going to the store with me.”

  6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
“Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you’re in an accident.”

  7. My father taught me IRONY.
“Keep crying, and I’ll give you something to cry about.”

  8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.
“Shut your mouth and eat your supper.”

  9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
“Just you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!”

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
“You’ll sit there until all that spinach is gone.”

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Submitted by Pete Creasey

Most of our generation of 60+ were
HOMESCHOOLED in many ways: 

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE .
  “If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.”

  2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
“You better pray that will come out of the carpet.”

  3. My father taught me about TIME TRAVEL
  “If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you into the middle of next week!”

  4. My father taught me LOGIC.
  ” Because I said so, that’s why.”

  5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC .
“If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you’re not going to the store with me.”

  6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
“Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you’re in an accident.”

  7. My father taught me IRONY.
“Keep crying, and I’ll give you something to cry about.”

  8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.
“Shut your mouth and eat your supper.”

  9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
“Just you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!”

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
“You’ll sit there until all that spinach is gone.”

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By Pete Creasey

I asked a friend who has crossed 70 & is heading towards 80 what sort of changes he is feeling in himself. He sent me the following:

1. After loving my parents, my siblings, my spouse, my children and my friends, I have now started loving myself.

2. I have realized that I am not “Atlas”. The world does not rest on my shoulders.

3. I have stopped bargaining with vegetable & fruit vendors. A few pennies more is not going to break me, but it might help the poor fellow save for his daughter’s school fees.

4. I leave my waitress a big tip. The extra money might bring a smile to her face. She is toiling much harder for a living than I am.

5. I stopped telling the elderly that they’ve already narrated that story many times. The story makes them walk down memory lane & relive their past.

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Submitted by Pete Creasey

Thanks, Pete, for sharing the best of times!

Today, they range in ages from 75 to 90.  Are you or do you know someone “still here”?    

Interesting Facts for you.

You are the smallest group of children, born since the early 1900s. 

You are the last generation, climbing out of the depression, who can remember the winds of war and the impact of a world at war which rattled the structure of our daily lives for years. 

You are the last to remember ration books for everything from gas to sugar to shoes to stoves. 

You saved tin foil and poured fat into tin cans. 

You saw cars up on blocks because tires weren’t available. 

You can remember milk being delivered to your house early in the morning and placed in the “milk box” on the porch. 

You are the last to see the gold stars in the front windows of grieving neighbors whose sons died in the War. 

You saw the ‘boys’ home from the war, build their little houses. 

You are the last generation who spent childhood without television; instead, you imagined what you heard on the radio. 

With no TV until the 50’s, you spent your childhood “playing outside”. 

There was no little league.  There was no city playground for kids. 

The lack of television in your early years meant, that you had little real understanding of what the world was like.  

On Saturday afternoons, the movies gave you newsreels sandwiched in between westerns and cartoons.  

Telephones were one to a house, often shared (party lines) and hung on the wall in the kitchen (no one cares about privacy).   

Typewriters were driven by pounding fingers, throwing the carriage and changing the ribbon. 

INTERNET’ and ‘GOOGLE’ were words that did not exist. 

Newspapers and magazines were written for adults and the news was broadcast on your radio in the evening.  As you grew up, the country was exploding with growth. 

The Government gave returning Veterans the means to get an education and spurred colleges to grow.  Loans fanned a housing boom.

Pent up demand coupled with new installment payment plans opened many factories for work. 

New highways would bring jobs and mobility.

The Veterans joined civic clubs and became active in politics.  

The radio network expanded from 3 stations to thousands. 

Your parents were suddenly free from the confines of the depression and the war, and they threw themselves into exploring opportunities they had never imagined. 

You weren’t neglected, but you weren’t today’s all-consuming family focus.  They were glad you played by yourselves until the street lights came on. They were busy discovering the post war world. 

You entered a world of overflowing plenty and opportunity; a world where you were welcomed, enjoyed yourselves and felt secure in your future though depression poverty was deeply remembered. 

Polio was still a crippler.  

You came of age in the 50s and 60s.  You are the last generation to experience an interlude when there were no threats to our homeland. The second world war was over and the cold war, terrorism, global warming, and perpetual economic insecurity had yet to haunt life with unease.  

Only your generation can remember both a time of great war, and a time when our world was secure and full of bright promise and plenty.  You grew up at the best possible time, a time when the world was getting better… 

You are “The Last Ones.” 

More than 99 % of you are either retired or deceased, and you feel privileged to have “lived in the best of times!” 

Submitted by Pete Creasey