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Father & Mother Really Did Know Best By: Vicki Wentz / Vicki’s Voice Yep, it was definitely a different time...a MUCH better time, and I will debate that with anyone who accepts the challenge! Father actually did “know best” and 19 families out of 20 had their fathers permanently at home. Actually, Dad left every morning for work and came home every evening, normally to a wife, some kids, and a homemade dinner - maybe tuna-noodle casserole, with frozen peas and some lemon meringue pie. But first, USUALLY the boy met the girl, the boy asked the girl out, the boy and girl dated until they were out of college (and by “dated”, I mean USUALLY some kissing and light “making out...no, USUALLY nothing further, believe it or not!). Then, the boy called the girl’s parents and asked for her hand in marriage, and then he proposed, and they planned a wedding, which was USUALLY paid for by the bride’s parents, except for the rehearsal dinner, which was USUALLY paid for by the groom’s family. Then, they got married and THEN they indulged in a tad more than light “making out...USUALLY. Then, along came the children, one by one...whom they welcomed with great joy, and love, and excitement. A man normally taught his son lots of things in the 1950s: how to catch a fish; how to save money; how to speak to their mothers; how to shoot a foul shot; how to do algebra...sort of. He taught him how to defend his sisters, girls in general...and his country; how to respect his elders; how to build a birdhouse or a model car; how to play Yahtzee with the family, because family comes FIRST and always will. A father taught a son how to work for a living, take responsibility for his actions, and love his future children by, first, loving their mother. A woman and mother of the ‘50s taught her daughters important things as well: how to wear a cardigan with a butterfly collar; how to apply make-up...very lightly; how to speak to her elders - and to everyone - with respect and a smile; how to work hard at whatever they did, and not to accept less than the best from anyone - especially themselves. A mother taught a daughter how to play the piano; how to beat a boy at ping-pong or golf...or running for Student Council President; how to make a fabulous tuna-noodle casserole; how to cherish her children, and how to make a house a home. We played tag and hide-n-seek and kick-the-can. We played if-bikeswere-horses, baseball and red-light-green-light...and lots of other hyphenated games. We walked four blocks to school, unless it was raining. We spoke respectfully to our teachers, we did our work...and we learned. We learned that 4+3=7 (not 4+3=possibly 5, or 9, or whatever your fragile psyche needs it to equal); we learned that “Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen-hundred-ninety-two” (and that he was a great Italian explorer, navigator and colonizer; that he fought stubbornly for the chance to find a “new world” and that if he hadn’t we might all still live in Italy...not that I’d mind that). We learned that Who is a subject, and Whom is a direct object or an object of a preposition (and that Whattsup would be a totally inappropriate - and punishable - offense when addressing a teacher. OK, to us kids, maybe it didn’t always SEEM like a wonderful time, but looking at our kids today, all on couches staring at phones - well, there’s no question it was. Vicki Wentz is a writer, teacher and speaker living in North Carolina. Readers may contact her - and order her new children’s book! - by visiting her website at www.vickiwentz.com. 16 September 2017
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