Arts, Crafts, Music, & Events of Breckinridge County Issue 2, July 2015 | Page 61

of giving us just a little more than they had, a better
education than them, and making it easier on us than they
experienced as children. My generation is the testimony to
whether or not it was better to make a child’s life easier, but,
we were taught too to follow our parents’ examples. We, as
grownups, also tried to make it even easier than we had it for
our kids. Now we all wonder if it has been good to do so or
not.
We were spanked, without anyone hollering we were
being abused. We were corrected and talked to when wrong,
made to honor our word, to respect our elders, to behave at
home, school, and other public places, and to say things like
“Yes Sir”, “No Mam”, “Please”, and “Thank You.” We were
taught to hold doors open for others, be courteous to
everyone, and we knew we better listen and obey when
addressed.BUT, most of us, fortunately knew we were loved.
We were taught to honor all others, our elders, our veterans,
our country, the Bible, and our flag. We were told we were
representatives of our families and expected to behave, be
honest, kind, and truthful. We are the products of using our
imaginations to entertain ourselves; we had no video games
or I- pods. I and other children of my era were taught to read
for entertainment, to travel to other worlds by reading, and
to learn to assume other roles in life from that new found
knowledge found in those books. We learned art first from