Which quote do you hear?
[Common vernacular]
"I'm not used to that."
Said?
".... Not my custom."
Said?
".... Not my orientation."
Said?
What is acceptable practice when cultures cross lines?
Farmer's daughter, no money problem, dad and mother both worked jobs, besides the farm.
Extended family... Teaching is not close relating information. Supervision is not available a major part of daytime, childhood, & siblings.
Divorcing parents was not spoken much of.
Here are seen gaps of learning moral values in the orientation of those involved.
In my case, music led our minds in a lot of surrender of resistive emotions.
The Bible was recited at church every week and the Ten Commandments. I was baptized in the Sandy River at age 10.
Parochial school early taught me, memory of old Testament altars.
No one was training me to teach or tell others what I knew, and self taught music was a major part age11 to17 one semester piano at 15, I had already learned on my own with God and one book.
Bless God, he used music to keep my mind occupied away from family problems.
Awareness and protocol were basic readiness for church, aside from that, discipline was understood in school, this is not enough to give a singular intelligence for growing to an adult, although influence can be very helpful.
By and by after time I began to understand the bigger picture of consequences that some youngsters faced, which, over a lifetime, meant to me stay out of trouble.
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