WHO TO MARRY...WRITTEN BY CHILDREN

 How to decide who to marry - Written by kids......

 

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HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHOM TO MARRY?

 

1. You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you

like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep

the chips and dip coming. -- Alan, age 10

 

2. No person really decides before they grow up who they're going to

marry. God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later

who you're stuck with. -- Kristen, age 10

 

 

 

WHAT IS THE RIGHT AGE TO GET MARRIED?

 

1. Twenty-three is the best age because you know the person FOREVER by then. -- Camille, age 10

 

2. No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get

married. -- Freddie, age 6

 

 

 

HOW CAN A STRANGER TELL IF TWO PEOPLE ARE MARRIED?

 

1. You might have to guess, based on whether they seem to be yelling

at the same kids. -- Derrick, age 8

 

 

 

WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR MOM AND DAD HAVE IN COMMON?

 

1. Both don't want any more kids. -- Lori, age 8

 

 

 

WHAT DO MOST PEOPLE DO ON A DATE?

 

1. Dates are for having fun, and people should use them to get to know

each other. Even boys have something to say if you listen long

enough. --

Lynnette, age 8

 

2. On the first date, they just tell each other lies and that Usually

gets them interested enough to go for a second date. -- Martin, age

10

 

 

 

WHAT WOULD YOU DO ON A FIRST DATE THAT WAS TURNING SOUR?

 

1. I'd run home and play dead. The next day I would call all the

newspapers and make sure they wrote about me in all the dead columns.

--

Craig, age 9

 

 

 

WHEN IS IT OKAY TO KISS SOMEONE?

 

1. When they're rich. -- Pam, age 7

 

2. The law says you have to be eighteen, so I wouldn't want to mess

with that - - Curt, age 7

 

3. The rule goes like this: If you kiss someone, then you should marry

them and have kids with them. It's the right thing to do. -- Howard,

age 8

 

 

 

IS IT BETTER TO BE SINGLE OR MARRIED?

 

1. It's better for girls to be single but not for boys. Boys need

someone to clean up after them. -- Anita, age 9

 

 

 

HOW WOULD THE WORLD BE DIFFERENT IF PEOPLE DIDN'T GET MARRIED?

 

1. There sure would be a lot of kids to explain, wouldn't there? --

Kelvin, age 8

 

 

 

And the #1 Favorite is........

 

 

 

HOW WOULD YOU MAKE A MARRIAGE WORK?

 

1. Tell your wife that she looks pretty, even if she looks like a

truck. -- Ricky, age 10

 

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

Four of my grandchildren came by yesterday with my daughter and son in law.

We all went out to dinner and when we got back home, the children each gave me a hand made card.

Instead of Happy Mother's Day, Caleb's card said...

Happy Bama Day!

Bama aka Mary Louise

BIRTH ORDER

I am a middle child. I have always felt that it was a great place to grow up. I was the baby to the oldest two and the boss to the youngest two!  

Bama  aka  Mary Louise

 

Here's a look at what impact your birth-order may have on you:

First Borns:
More conscientious, ambitious and aggressive than their younger siblings, first borns are over-represented at Harvard and Yale as well as disciplines requiring higher education such as medicine, engineering or law. Every astronaut to go into space has been either the oldest child in his or her family or the eldest boy. And throughout history -- even when large families were the norm -- more than half of all Nobel Prize winners and U.S. presidents have been birst born. Famous eldest children include: Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Richard Branson, J.K. Rowling and Winston Churchill. And macho movie stars are First Born, too, including Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis and all the actors who have played James Bond.

Middles:
Middle children are more easy going and peer-oriented. Since they can get lost in the shuffle of their own families, they learn to build bridges to other sources of support and therefore tend to have excellent people skills. Middle children often take on the role of mediator and peacemaker. Famous middle children include: Bill Gates, J.F.K., Madonna and Princess Diana.

Youngest:
The youngest child tends to be the most creative and can be very charming -- even manipulative. Because they often identify with the underdog, they tend to champion egalitarian causes. (Youngest siblings were the earliest backers of the Protestant Reformation and the Enlightenment.) Successful in journalism, advertising, sales and the arts, famous youngest children include Cameron Diaz, Jim Carrey, Drew Carey, Rosie O'Donnell, Eddie Murphy and Billy Crystal.

Only Children:
Only children have similar characteristics to first borns and are frequently burdened with high parental expectations. Research shows they are more confident, articulate and likely to use their imagination than other children. They also expect a lot from others, hate criticism, can be inflexible and are likely to be perfectionists. Well-known only children include Rudy Guiliani, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Alan Greenspan, Tiger Woods, tennis' teen queen Maria Sharapova and Leonardo Da Vinci.

Twins:
Because they hold equal status and are treated so similarly, twins turn out similarly in most cases. Consider advice columnists "Dear Abby" and "Ann Landers" (Abigail and Esther Friedman), and Harold and Bernard Shapiro, who became presidents of Princeton University and Canada's McGill University respectively.

Dr. Frank Sulloway, a behavioral scientist and visiting professor at the Institute of Personality and Social Research at University of California, Berkeley and author of the book, "Born To Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics and Creative Lives," says first borns are more similar in personality to first borns in other families than they are to their own younger siblings and that youngest children are often more similar to the youngest child in another family than his or her own elder siblings. He says this is because the family is not as much a "shared environment" as a set of niches that provide siblings with different outlooks.

Conley agrees, but stresses that these are just general trends -- and that the whole birth-order theory can be turned on its head depending on the child's personality, the age gap between siblings and the family circumstances each child experiences during his or her formative years.