4 - Morrisville and Preston Progress. Thursday. Mav 28.1998
Today’s kids are too honest,
By Roxanne Powers
Something is wrong with the kids
of today. For one, they don’t like
chocolate with nuts in it, and for
another, they’ve always got to be
doing something.
For instance, my four-year-old
son, who will drop cartoons in a
heartbeat in exchange for an
opportunity to do yard work. Or
consider his three sisters, who will
jump at the opportunity to clean
house as part of a family team with
the only reward being an opportu
nity to “crank” up their CD’s.
Today’s kids are too honest as
well. When I was a kid, if we did
something wrong we had enough
sense to hide until we got hungry.
A close Mend and I are often
reduced to laughter when we ask,
“Who broke that vase?” and one of
our children answers on a pitiful
sigh “I did...I’m sorry.”
We brusquely respond, “Well,
clean it up...and next time what
should you do?”
“Come tell you?”
“Well, yea, that too...” I attempt
with a straight face, “but, how
about being more careful as well?”
“OK”, the child usually answers
meekly.
When I add something like,
“.,.and next, I guess you’ll chop
down someone’s cherry tree!”
I usually get a response of, “No,
I promise to be more careful!”
Another example of the preco
ciousness of today’s kids is when
my husband James recently agreed
to let our son Jake’s Mend, four-
year-old Hunter Patterson “hang
out” with him until Jake was
released from pre-school. As they
pulled into one of his job-sites.
Hunter asked, “Why are we here,
James?”
“Well, Buddy,” James replied,
“I’m a landscape contractor, and
this is one of the jobs we’re work
ing on.”
“Oh,” said Hunter, “I’m going to
be a paleontologist when I grow
up.”
“A Wha...???” queried James.
“A paleontologist. That’s the
study of fossils.” said Hunter.
“I’m going to study dinosaur
bones.”
“Oh. I knew that.” James
answered wittily.
With more than a hint of reassur
ance in his voice. Hunter offered,
“That’s all right, James.”
On the other hand, when I was a
wee one, I couldn’t understand
why my parents didn’t like it when
I walked off with the side of my
crib...or why, when I was four-
years-old, my too frequently
bathed, sponge-filled “baby” got
the blue measles (that my parents
ungraciously referred to as
mildew), or why I fell into a water-
filled ditch when I tried to catch
fish in a bucket; or even why the
hamster took off for the furnace
when I opened his cage door.
My son also seems to uninten
tionally render the same effect on
creatures
Today though. I’m proud to
report that I’m much smarter than
my past would indicate. For one
thing, I’ve determined that the best
way to insure my stash of choco
late is to make sure that it has nuts
in it.
Roxanne Powers is a Morrisville
resident who writes a monthly col
umn for The Momsville & Preston
Progress.
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Mother writes Heather’s Song for daughter’s wedding
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“It would have been hard for us to
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have had to quit our job and quit our
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She said she identifies with her
mother’s sense of loss, which she
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“My maid of honor should be my
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Heather said, “but no one’s been
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same time guide them. I never
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do something. I even partied with
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more children, Michael, 12, and
Jenna, 9, and is still using the same
philosophy. She also teaches piano
lessons to many Preston residents
and runs a part-time computer con
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on her MBA at Campbell College.
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of daily tasks, but she has one other
copyrighted song, which she wrote
for a friend who has terminal cancer.
In the case of Heather’s song, it
took about 20 minutes to write. “It
was like my heart was just pouring
out on paper,” she said.
Originally, she recorded the song
on a cassette, but she wanted to have
something more special to present to
her daughter, so she went to Snow
Hill Music Company in Orange
County, a professional recording
studio.
“I showed up with just the song in
my head,” she said. “I said do you
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They had a fancy digital piano and
she and the director decided to add
violin music to the recording.
“I was paying $50 an hour, so I
wanted to make sure I got it right,”
she said. First she played the music,
and did not make one mistake. Then
she sang while the music was
pumped into earphones in the sound
room.
“I felt like Barbra Streisand for
half an hour,” she joked.
The end result was a gold compact
disk with a white label that said,
“Where did the Time Go?” and
underneath, “Heather’s Song.”
“It’s one of the nicest things I have
ever heard of a mother doing for her
daughter on her wedding,” said
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Heather and Bill are off to Jamaica
to Montego Bay before returning to
their jobs and life in Greenville,
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plans.
“Planning a wedding is like having
a second job,” Heather said the day
before her wedding. “You don’t
expect it to come, and now it’s
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wind of wedding plans, she often
popped it in her car radio and lis
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“This has been difficult to get
through, especially being her matron
of honor,” she said. “The song has
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