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From: "Peggy Munroe" <>
Subject: Re: [GT-UNI] Swapping the Kids
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:48:06 -0400
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She may catch it on another child! Michael didn't get it until #2.

Peggy

----- Original Message -----
From: "mary" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [GT-UNI] Swapping the Kids


> I share your sentiments, Peggy, having also brought up 4 of them....
> My older daughter, though, lucked out. I always wished a really picky
> eater specially with vegetables on to her as she was the absolute worst
> kid for that - and her firstborn eats wonderfully, and usually eats his
> veggies first....
>
> mary
>
> Peggy Munroe wrote:
>
> >I will have to admit that, when my four children were growing up, there
were
> >many times when I wished I could give them away! (Haven't we all?) But
> >nobody else wanted them. They turned out to be very nice adults, though.
My
> >youngest son was my biggest challenge & I put the mother's curse on him.
You
> >know the one, "You just wait, when you grow up, you'll have a child just
> >like you!" And, to my delight, he does! A dear, precious 5 yr old, but so
> >much like Michael that it is scary!
> >
> >Peggy in FL....hot & muggy
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Lizzie Love" <>
> >To: <>
> >Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 3:24 AM
> >Subject: Re: [GT-UNI] Swapping the Kids (Was- Brit food)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>My great grandmother Mary MANNING gave her daughter Edith to her
childless
> >>brother Joseph DAVIES, which is why she was listed as DAVIES on the 181
> >>census. She was my paternal grandmother. When I didn't find her under
> >>MANNING in Hodnet, Shropshire, I remembered she was brought up by Uncle
> >>DAVIES, who worked in Birmingham. I looked him up there and found Edith
> >>
> >>
> >Mary
> >
> >
> >>DAVIES, aged 5, in his household. Mystery solved.
> >>
> >>Lizzie
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Passing little kids over to another family is a common practice among
> >>>
> >>>
> >the
> >
> >
> >>>Polynesians, Peggy. It seemed to work alright in the old days when
the
> >>>families were all living close together, but today it tends to lead to
> >>>breaking up of family life and the crime that goes with it. At least,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>that
> >>
> >>
> >>>seems to be the case in New Zealand.
> >>>
> >>>Stan
> >>>(Wellington, New Zealand)
> >>>
> >>>----- Original Message -----
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Thanks, Nancy! That is very interesting. It is just hard for me to
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>believe
> >>
> >>
> >>>>that a mother could just hand her children over to someone else,
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>although
> >>
> >>
> >>>I
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>know it is true.
> >>>>
> >>>>Peggy in FL...raised a whole different way!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>


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