"This is for the Senior members of CS, those born before 1947. Baby Boomers and Generations X & Y are welcome providing you are over 18 🙂
But this is definitely for people who are facing the last long haul. We have survived babyhood, childhood, being teens and twenties... We have learned to read and write, to drive, have probably been married and the women have survived child birth.
The challenges are constant and the near misses of death are also there. If we have become a senior we have learned to survive so much, and along the way we have, of course, gathered a great deal of knowledge about life.
The belief that age diminishes us is not true, it changes us and not all of it is bad. Yes there can be various forms of dementia for some, but that is also a disease that can happen in younger people. Alzheimer's can also occur - it is another form of dementia and generally occurs in people over 65, although that can occur much earlier too and not everyone is going to get it.
Most of us keep our mental alertness up to the moment of death, even if we lose our hearing and our eyesight, but of course this can happen at any age too.
What changes is our physical strength, which diminishes but our mental strength and patience grows, it has to of course, to deal with this aging thing.
Arthritis, heart trouble, strokes - all these things associated with age can happen at any time in your life - arthritis can happen when you are a child but they don't like giving out new hips and knees until you are in your 50s and 60s or later. We can talk about that too.
Cancer can happen any time and that is also something we can discuss here if you like.
The point of this thread is to give the Seniors a chance to talk about how they are coping with age, the challenges it presents and the fears that can come with it... loss of hearing or sight, aging spouses, living alone, retirement villages, even death...
So I will ask that the Juniors treat us in kindly fashion and remember, all this is going to happen to you too - providing you avoid death before you get here 🙂
So, onward and upward. Let's go...."
Good on ya Richo :^O
I think that 'Children's Rights' was meant as a guide line in the courts when faced with seriously abused children.. that the schools decided to feed this information to the kids was dreadfully wrong.
Like you Lyndal, I never allowed it to influence me, under my roof they rememered I was The Mother and what I said went... once out on their own, hopefully equipped with the things I had taught them, then they could choose what they wanted.
They seem to be doing okay, some a bit better than others 🙂
Have you noticed that nowadays they say 'That's for me and Suzie' instead of the other way round 'That's for Suzie and me'... I think that says it all... now they put themselves first in all things and that particular rule applies to everything ...
I happened to be present when a 16 year old girl - a very large girl - threatened her aunt and mother, but turned to me and said 'not you'!
I stared at her hard and said, 'Don't even try'! I think she took the hint. I will NOT be threaened by kids, they might knock me out and I might end up in hospital, but that's nothing compared to facing prison for assault!!! X-(
Grrrrrr
Actually she and I ended up (oops, that should be 'me and her') having quite a friendly relationship.. so maybe she was glad someone stood up to her. 🙂
Oh long before 40 freshie, that's hangofanold 😞
Yes, it gets up my nose too.... I often want to say IF you get to my age - and at the rate you are going, you probably won't, because it takes skill to get to my age, then you will know much more than you do at present. X-(
Grrrr !
Oh I slipped on the 'good patient list' I didn't forget an appointment, but I couldn't make it and although I tried to phone and cancel it, I couldn't get through, so in the end I just gave up :^O
I've been using computers since about 1986, but my OH was in the computer business long before that when they were big clunking things and had not been tamed or domesticated... Thankfully my son does not think of me as some sort of an idiot and we can exchange information in a companionable manner 🙂 Mind you, he is 50, so maybe having a teen daughter makes a difference :^O
My daughter and her husband are the dumbest I have ever met and so, consequently treat me like a total fool. We were driving through Canberra many years ago and my SIL said, as we slowed down to do 40 through a school zone. "We have these in Canberra, it makes sure the childen are safe crossing the roads....
HUH??? Did he think the 40 signs were not Australian wide?
JAYZUS and I had to be told? Aaarrggghhh stop me someone.
Arhhh! I love it Jean... A totaliatarian establishment... and the panic the teacher felt would have done your heart good. Yes of course you have saved it for your grown son and his child :^O
Thankfully my kids are ten years older and so missed out on that time, but when my son (at 18) joined the Defence Forces, he got the impression that his 'little mother' was definitely of inferior status.... Hmmmm...... X-(
On leave one time, I had enough and sent him packing. I made it clear, he had two options - accept me as I am and we can be friends or F/orf and leave me alone!!!
It was six months before I heard again and when I did it was by phone and the voice was anything but nice. I stared at the phone and my options and told him I didn't give a ....
I Slammed the phone down!
Silence!!
another three months...
Phone range
"Hi Mum, may I come and visit?"
Hahahahaa we have been friends ever since... No, I didn't think for one moment I had lost him, but he did wonder about me :^O
Ah! kids... sigh!
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