“Spending TIME with Children… is more important”

Nov 3rd “Spending TIME with Children… is more important”

Sometimes in LIFE… you see something that catches your eye, and you just start to read it… and then you start to think about the words, and then… those old memories, that you remember… just start to roll on and on.

“Spending TIME with Children… is more important… than spending money on children!”

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The above words just got me to thinking… as to how those words may have applied to “ME” … and as I am now thinking back… and as far back, as I can remember… the way things were then with WWII going on, and “ME” just a youngster in and about those times … and now must apply my memories… as I start to remember them… to those times… almost a hundred years ago.

Just to start to remember those times… when I was a young girl and and compare them to today… It is almost as if I have changed a hundred times over… with all of the changes that have taken place in just where we were living.

Back then… ALL OF THE BUILDINGS WERE BRICK…

At some point in TIME… the people living in the City… just had enough of the small and congested areas and the “Builders” started working WEST into the County… building new and a nice mixture of styles of homes… some frame and mixture of stone… as they had some extra ground with them for some nice backyards for the kids to play.

Before “Television Days” my Mother read to the three of us… my two brothers and myself.

I remember the three of us sitting around in the living room… while my Mother would read from the BIBLE, some stories that we really enjoyed, as MOM would also change her voice for the different people, so that we knew those voices as people, just like we would hear on the radio.

Back then… RADIO was the number one form of home entertainment. If you would be outside and walking down the block to friends … you could hear what was going on … on the radio… as most of the people would be listening to the very same program.. and with all the radios on the same block… tune in to the same program… you were also entertained .

We also had WWII going on and so many men were in the service, and so often … we would see a person on a bike delivering a “Telegram” to a home… and within just a very few minutes… everyone would hear loud screams… that “Telegram” was notification… that someone at that address… would have been wounded and or killed in the service!

As I remember way back to those days as a very young girl and with my brothers… that if we were not on some kind of a work effort that we kids would get involved with, and in our trying to help the WWII effort … we would then be at home getting the personal training of what and how to do, as we would also take long walks around the area, that we lived… as well as the Parks that were near to our home.

It was terrific to know where you live… as a small child, and also how to get to almost any where, in the nearby vicinity… that you and your friends were allowed to go, and or meet for some activity!