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lharles:

--- Quote from: shardian on October 04, 2006, 02:51:36 pm ---Just curious, but is there anyone on here that had a good, healthy prime-time family sitcom upbringing instead of the apparently common unhealthy after-school special upbringing? Maybe we have stumbled upon something else we all have in common other than a arcade/coin-op/button addiction.

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I can definitely say I scrounged quite a few cans JUST to escape into a game or two o' Pac-Man or Asteroids.  :) 
ChadTower:
I severed all contact with my father when I was 17.  Completely.  Have spoken to him or anyone else on that side of my family probably 3 times in the 14 years since.  With all the wisdom brought on by being twice the age I was then I now wish I had had the strength to do it 5 years sooner.  I knew at 12 it should happen but a kid doesn't know how to do such things.

Not many of my friends growing up had that "normal" family.  Few of us had two parents in the house, at least half had no contact with a parent for one reason or another.  One didn't know his father, one had a deceased mother, one had a father who didn't migrate to the US with them, a few had both parents but the lived apart.

The kids that had two "normal" parents in a "normal" house were an abstract concept.  They were in the same school but the whole thought of coming home on the bus to a sane household, doing homework, having dinner put on the table for you, maybe playing Nintendo until bedtime was just weird.  Hard to imagine.  I figured life was like that in some places but in the same way I figured the Red Sox might win the World Series someday.  It's possible, but no one I knew had seen it.
saint:
I had a great childhood with a great set of parents. They had their normal human flaws, but all in all I had it really good. I hope I'm giving my kids as good of a childhood as I had.
fredster:
Lharles, that was great! That was a really nice post. I enjoyed it very much!
leapinlew:

--- Quote from: fredster on October 04, 2006, 03:41:59 pm ---Lharles, that was great! That was a really nice post. I enjoyed it very much!

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I whole heartedly agree. Well done Lharles.
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