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Originally posted by TheArtist
Have any "family" or longtime Tulsa ways changed since you were a kid?
Heck they changed regularly WHEN I was a kid lol.
Were there things that were "religion" that were usually not deviated from in your parents household vs. your own household?
I guess I am old school. I was born in 1957 in OKC and raised in Tulsa. ALL of my childhood friends had 2 parent households where the mother stayed at home. I don't recall any of my playmates that had divorced parents. Heck, I was raised Roman Catholic so divorce wasn't in our vocabulary. Our dads went off to the office grind every day, and mom stayed home to cook, clean house, drive we kids around, and be Cub Scout den mothers and PTA/school volunteers. May seem very idealistic and cliche now, but it was a "wonderful life" at least until I turned 13 when my father died, and I am sure I am a better adult for it. After dad come home from work and our school homework was done, the TV went off and we sat around the kitchen table to a family, home-cooked dinner EVERY night. To eat out at a restaurant was a rare, special treat. It really was an idealistic "Leave It To Beaver" sort of life, and I am glad I was a part of it. But you know, it is not so out of reach for families today, if they would reexamine their priorities and budget funds properly.
Of course all was not a bed of roses, in my own life or that of others. Dirty laundry was not talked about then; you just accepted your situation and moved on. You kept up appearances, which may or may not have been a good thing, but if I had to relive my childhood, I don't think I would change a thing except for my parent's premature deaths.
