Did your parental home have a ‘parlor’ or front room reserved only for when you had visitors?
My parental home? We lived in an apartment until I graduated high school. I never had any visitors. Maybe it was because each time I tried to have a friend, my mom would end up recruit him/her to be one of her students for tutoring or my mom would try to scare him/her away.
Did you ever go to stay with relatives during the school holidays? Did relatives (cousins, grandparents) come to stay with your family in the holidays?
I think these questions will only apply to the 3 years before I immigrated to the US, when I was in China and my mom was in the US. During those 3 years, I was constantly moved from relative to relative, depended on who was willing to take me in. During school breaks, I usually went to stay with my paternal family while during school, I stayed with my maternal family.
None of my relatives from either side ever really wanted me because I’m a girl. Knowing this also made me bitter toward them, even to this day, especially toward my mom’s siblings.
After arriving in the US, I had no relatives where I could stay during school breaks. Even when we moved to Texas when my step-dad’s family was only a 10-minute car ride away, I never went to stay with them during school break nor did any of my step-cousins came over to my apartment as they were a few years older than I was.
What do you remember from the 1960s?
Only whatever’s written in the history textbooks since I wasn’t born. My mom was born in the 1960’s and she does try to relay some of her childhood but it felt like a different time period.
I do remember watching a movie in my high school history class. I can’t recall the movie’s name but it was a fictional account of the entire 1960 decade. I don’t remember much about the movie since it was so long ago. The impression left on me was that the 60’s was the first of two hippies era. There was the JFK assassination in Dallas, moon landing, MLK’s I have a dream speech, and the assassination of MLK. Does that sum up the 60’s? Not even close but that’s all I can think off the top of my head at the moment.
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Thanks for joining in and sharing your world. I’ve been caught out by my last question and readers not being born then, so have added an alternative about a specific decade.
It’s been fascinating reading about people’s homes and childhoods over the years and how things have changed since I was a youngster.
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I like reading about and hearing about the various stuff that happened in each decade of the 20th century. The decade I remember most is probably the early 2000’s because that’s when I was a teenager going to school and growing up.
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