84-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 18, 2000
On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other
hazards)
Joyce Bupp
Some random thoughts as we
prepare to celebrate our first
Thanksgiving of the millenni
um...
I’m thankful for this way of
life we take sooooo much for
granted here in these free United
States.
For markets and supermarkets
and super-duper-super-center
markets, ready to sell us way
more stuff than any of us could
ever need, ever use or ever have
place to store. Or to stomach.
For a society where diet chal
lenges rise from our abundance,
rather than from continuous
worry about where our next bite
of food will come from. (If only
we could just figure out how to
share it better).
For a stable economy where
Family Finances Top Secret?
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
Some parents just do not want
to burden the children with the
family financial planning. They
reserve the headaches for Mom
and Dad. Other parents simply
are too secretive about such plan
ning. These parents don’t seem
to think that their children can
be trusted with information
about the financial status of the
family.
Regardless of the reason, the
result is the same the children
never have an opportunity to
learn the practical day-by-day
financial workings of a family.
Teen-agers especially need
some practical experience. They
will soon be starting families of
their own and will probably be
experiencing the same concerns.
It can well be asked, “Where do
young people learn?”
Many young people who
marry suddenly realize they
don’t have the foggiest notion of
what insurance they need or
don’t need, how much to save,
what percentage of the family
budget should be allotted for
01, SUS< jUEBLiNNA
CBs. 1 UINTING
“for hire” signs have replaced
lines of folks waiting to sign up
for unemployment assistance.
For the personal freedom and
ability to drive my decade-old
plus little car to a service station
to fill up with $1.60/gallon gas. It
could just as easily be $3.60 per
gallon. (Which, on the other
hand, might FINALLY push us
into a genuine focus on alternate
energy sources).
For a society where we can en
dure the unbelievability of a cliff
hanger presidential election, its
resultant legal challenges, vote
counts, recounts, media hype, ju
dicial rulings with the only en
suing war being one of words.
(Yes, we know. LOTS of words).
For watchdog agencies
some of which admittedly drive
food, and so forth.
It is surprising how some par
ents will criticize their older chil
dren for the way they spend their
money. Comments like, “I just
don’t understand this younger
generation” or “When I was
your age” are frequently heard.
And yet these very parents have
never sat down with their child
and attempted to help him or her
understand the complex finan
cial aspects of the family.
It is also surprising how few
families encourage the older chil
dren to be present when the time
arrives to work on the income
tax. Some parents would not
even think of including the teen
ager in this tolerated exercise
each year. Yet, is there a better
place to learn?
Again, regardless of the rea
son, it isn’t doing the teen-ager in
your family a favor when you
leave him or her out of the fami
ly financial planning. The family
is still the first schoolhouse and
parents can be the most influen
tial teachers.
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us nuts sometimes with their bu-
reaucratic ways which have
kept at bay such health and eco
nomic threats as the ebola virus,
“mad cow” disease and, most re
cently, at least temporarily halt
ed the proposed importation to
the U.S. of thousands of dairy
cattle assembled in a region of
the world rife with that most
contagious bovine affliction;
hoof-and-mouth disease.
For tremendous strides made
in treating and curing cancers,
and heartfelt prayers that the
pace of research intensifies.
For telephone answering ma
chines, for FAX technology, for
computers (well, most of the
time), checkout scanners, pagers,
cell phones, pocket calculators
and all that stuff that helps us
digitally type, tally, and keep in
touch.
For dedicated teachers who
still persist in teaching our kids
to write and add, subtract and
divide by hand, despite the
above. And to long-suffering
school bus drivers who get our
kids there safely and on time,
day after day.
For policemen and firefighters
and public servants who keep
our environment and our streets
and relatively safe, wage the
thankless and unending battle
against criminal elements, re-
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still take time to remind legions
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For good neighbors who alert
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their packaged newspapers for
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For family close by to celebrate
holidays and plain every days
filled with a couple of
generations of terrific cooks. For
turkey and stuffing and mashed
potatoes and sweet potatoes and
garden salads and corn and
beans and cranberry sauce and
hot rolls and gravy and...des
serts!
For having to go back out to
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all that to work it off.
And for the freedom to be able
to bow our heads to offer thanks
for our abundance of blessings.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving!
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