Real parents provide for their children and they don't do it to be appreciated. lain:
I had a great working mom. She was a teacher and then a professor. I had a terrific childhood. I knew my mother and father loved me and I had a wonderful couple who looked after me and our home and acreage when she couldn't or when I wasn't with her, later, rummaging through the library stacks in her university, or listening to great jazz albums and tinkering on a Steinway in the music department. It's tough for a lot of people, I know, and many can't afford to do for theirs what my family did for me, which should have us taking up the notion of a real living wage, but there are all sorts of productive ways to manage any situation, provided love is at the center of it.
I had a great working mom. She was a teacher and then a professor. I had a terrific childhood. I knew my mother and father loved me and I had a wonderful couple who looked after me and our home and acreage when she couldn't or when I wasn't with her, later, rummaging through the library stacks in her university, or listening to great jazz albums and tinkering on a Steinway in the music department. It's tough for a lot of people, I know, and many can't afford to do for theirs what my family did for me, which should have us taking up the notion of a real living wage, but there are all sorts of productive ways to manage any situation, provided love is at the center of it.