As if parenthood hasn't already enough anxieties and tribulations already! I'm saying this with all sympathy.
Everything has become so class-ridden in this country in a way it wasn't when I was growing up. Surely there were class divisions, but they were easily breached for kids (parents, not so much maybe, sometimes). But by and large out there in farmlandia, most of the parents attended a large enough church, that their kids were part of, and all the kids went to the same school, and all the kids took swimming lessons at the town pool (farm kids like us had to be driven in, of course, but the mothers took this as a time out from their working day to hang out together with a friend ((they probably went to school together too, when growing up -- at the same school as we went to!)) while waiting to drive us all home again, and would even switch off days to drive). Anyway, 'nuff bout that!
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Everything has become so class-ridden in this country in a way it wasn't when I was growing up. Surely there were class divisions, but they were easily breached for kids (parents, not so much maybe, sometimes). But by and large out there in farmlandia, most of the parents attended a large enough church, that their kids were part of, and all the kids went to the same school, and all the kids took swimming lessons at the town pool (farm kids like us had to be driven in, of course, but the mothers took this as a time out from their working day to hang out together with a friend ((they probably went to school together too, when growing up -- at the same school as we went to!)) while waiting to drive us all home again, and would even switch off days to drive). Anyway, 'nuff bout that!
Love, C.