Comments on: Style AND Substance

By: Deb

Deb — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:22:38 +0000

But of course I keep my big mouth shut- I learned that from Thumper’s Mother! The times my daughter and I spend an hour or more together we thoroughly enjoy each other.

Pundits might could even call us “Friends, With Limits”.

Deb

By: Melanie

Melanie — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:14:22 +0000

My poor worn-out mother was only in my life for the first 19 years. I think she made her transition when she knew I had the abilities to fend for myself.

Forty-five 5 years later I learned that she never lived with her parents from the time she was a baby. She had no skills with which to mother me: so I hung out with those miracle Other Moms.

I finally had my daughter at age 30 my African American Mom from next door then grew me up on growing kids up. I’ve had a lotta fun with my daughter and son, but for the first 30 years I remained their mother first.

I was always a tom-boy and I guess at 66 I still am, so understand that I honestly can’t relate to my 36 year old daughter’s frantic girl-culture! Please accept my apologies for any offense because I just can’t help it: I do label them “Victoria’s Secret Girlz”.

I’m talking about the tiaras, implants, weaves airbrushed makeup; (GIRDLES AGAIN???) and their obsessive attention on who is saying/doing what! Maybe I never got girleyfied.

By: Ruth

Ruth — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:11:54 +0000

I couldn’t agree with you more. A lot of boomer kids were raised in rigid, heirarchical, emotionally cold families. I think the conscious motivation is probably a desire to GIVE our children more warmth and intimacy than we got. But I think the unconscious motivation is to GET the love we felt deprived of.

By: Océane

Océane — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:09:43 +0000

Zen Lill, this french girl couldn’t get in either. Happy Birthday Zen Lill. We love your exercises and wish you would start up that column again.

Te voir celui-ci

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Anonymous — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:51:00 +0000

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