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thoughts for moms
"There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one." - from Grime and Punishment, by Jill Churchill
"The everlasting sadness of any mother is that there comes a time when she can no longer bring magic to your life, nor cure your troubles" - Diana Briscoe
Thanks to Betty Winslow of Bowling Green, Ohio, for submitting thewse quotations.
stepmom's
favorite quote
"What you
do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say." -Ralph
Waldo
Emerson
"I believe this is a good
thing for the parents of teenagers to remember
every day. I have it written on my white board at work, too,"
says Caron, the stepmother of a 19-year-old and a 15-year-old
in Des Moines, Iowa,.
"The source of the submission is a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson that I first saw on my 'A Word A Day' daily email."
true or false?
An enterprising student solicited donations of 1 cent each to finance his college education.
True - and it worked! Find out how at the terrific "Urban Legends" website.
adolescence
past
"At the height of the Great Depression, two hundred and fifty thousand teenage hoboes were roaming America," says the author of "Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression" (TV Books, New York, 1999).
Most of the young hoboes were boys, but there were plenty of "boxcar girls" riding the rails too - often disguised as males.
"In summer, boys followed the harvests in the West. A young hobo might start with the hay harvest in California and the Rocky Mountain states in early summer ... Winter could be spent in the cotton fields of Texas and the South-West."
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was so concerned about unemployed Depression-era youth that he created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) for unmarried men between the ages of 18 and 25. (You've probably seen their work in national parks - they constructed many still-existing trails and park buildings.) A quarter-million young men were settled in 1,468 forest and park CCC camps only six months after Roosevelt took office.
"Riding the Rails" draws on 3,000 letters from former boxcar boys and girls. More at the Riding the Rails website.
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