Middle Aged Memories
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I liked finding the hidden objects in the picture in Highlights. Did you ever do scribble pictures in grade school....just draw all over the page and then see what hidden pics show up within the lines you drew? Usually there were be a lot of fish in it.
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I liked Goofus and Gallant and The Timbertoes. I don't think we ever did a scribble picture. Sounds cute though.
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Anyone remember the SRA reading series? and math with something called "rods" (I think).
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The timertoes! I'd forgotten all about them!
(Hi, everybody - I just stumbled on this forum, and the flashbacks started rolling)
And yes, Karen, I remember SRA - our entire language arts program was built around it!
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Meece- Oh my God, I am 61 too and I remember that so well. I loved it and was so happy to be able to draw along on the TV. What a shame my kids never had such fun!
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I remember SRA and Weekly Readers. Someone in our neighborhood had Highlights delivered for their child a couple of years ago, but our address was on it. I tried to locate who it belonged to but nobody knew. Being the frugal person I am, I saved them all, thinking I would find out who "Miranda" was. I never did, but the magazines are stacked in my guest room waiting.
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IWere the SRA readers color coded for reading level and then at the end of the story there were various prjects - some writing reports and some arts and crafts ? If so I LOVED them. Thought about posting about them....so cool that our "middle age memories" overlap so much ?
Oh, and as another member of the small breast club, check out Target, they have a large selection for small sizes !
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I remember the SRAs were stored in a box, right? They were kept on a table in the back of the classroom, and we could go back there and pick out a laminated card with the story on it. Is that what we are talking about?
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Would you beleive that I still see Highlights in with the magazine in the most of the medical waiting rooms I've been in lately? Why was a Highlights in a Plastic Surgeon's waiting room?
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Sorry, didn't realize the pic would come through so big
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karen - cuisenaire rods ? Different colors for different lengths?
I like to read this thread but growing up in England, so much was so different! We had Dick and Dora beginning reading books. With Nip the dog and Fluff the cat - the Happy Venture reading series.
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This first bra talk is killing me. I remember struggling with those stray ends - I was so little that I had to adjust the straps way up and I'd have about 6 inches of ends to hide. And the quip about wearing a white blouse so everyone would know you wear a bra - LOL - I did that after seeing another girl do it! OMG! What was I thinking.
I also remember when I first started wearing stockings, they hadn't invented panty hose yet. My mom just threw a couple of old girdles my way to hold them up but I was not allowed to shave my legs!!!!! Mom had dire warnings abut these things: the hair would grow back thick and coarse and then I'd really be in trouble. Finally I talked her into letting me shave my legs so I wouldn't have hair all plastered down showing through my stockings, but I was forbidden to shave my underarms. I finally blew that edict off and shaved underneath them anyway.
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..My best friend who lived up the street had really hairy legs and her mom would not allow her to shave them until she was in highschool so she came to my house and shaved her legs....I think she was in maybe 8th grade then. I remember it was at her house that I tried my first attempt at inserting a tampon....she and another best friend were right outside the bathroom door asking Is it in yet? Did you get it? Finally I gave up and don't think I ever did master the art of those until maybe college. Oh those belts and the pads we used to wear...those were awful. I remember when I first started wearing hose, I didn't want a garter belt, I wanted a girdle. I suppose because my mother wore one and I assoiciated that with being a real grownup or something. Remember your lst pair of heels....I got some of those little French heels in 6th grade for Easter....boy did I think I was cool when I wore those. They were black patten leather with a tee strap.
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The Highlights may have been in your PS's office for the same reason they are in my PSs office. He also has a subspecialty field of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. He does a lot of work on children with cleft pallets.
Ah, the "belt" YUCK!!
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Good point, I hadn't thought about a PS specializing in breast reconstruction also doing pediatric surgery, but I'll bet that's just the reason.
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Meece - We must have been in school together (LOL), my SRA readers were also kept in the back of the room.....
Desdemona - I too was told by my Mom that once you start shaving, the hair will come back thicker. I think I was in 8th grade before I was so embarrassed by underarm hair, I finally insisted !
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I guess my mom never noticed when I started shaving. And I didn't flaunt it either. But I played tennis, and it would have neen embarrassing to be out on the court with dreadlocks on my legs.
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Yet another use for duct tape...gets rid of unwanted leg hair if you rip it off real fast...tried that when I was "too young to shave"...Yoowwww!
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I think the hair growing back thicker and darker line must be universal! I got the same line from my mother, then a year or two later she MADE me go shave my underarms because of the smell! Talk about mortified.
I remember SRA readers in the back of the room, too. I remember rushing to get through classroom assignments so I could do one of those.
Never thought of using duct tape for hair removal, but I wonder if that would be easier, or at least quicker, than shaving. I bet I'd end up with fewer nicks and bloody spots than with a razor!
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Growing back thicker and coarser, could that just be part of your body maturing? I mean, how many adult women (Who don't shave) do you see with that baby fine leg hair we had when we were 8?
Do you remember those "playground balls", the red ones that that were textured, and when you bounced them they made a distinct bouncy sound. Each classroom had a ball box, and there were 5 or 6 balls including kickballs, in the box. It was a race to the ball box at recess to have control of one of the balls.
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I remember those balls! The sound was indeed distinct and so much fun! The texture could give you a really good "rash" if you got hit hard enough on the arm or leg!
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As you get older, you will find there is less and less hair to deal with. On the side where I have the mastectomy, the hair under my arms never did return and that arm is not as hairy as the other one.....I have told my gyno and others this and they just look at me like I am nuts, but I KNOW what was there and what is not now. My grandmother's legs were smooth like a baby's and also before my mother passed away I remember looking at how smooth and hairless here legs were in the hospital and she told me it wears off. This may be true because if you have ever noticed guys who wear socks all the time have not as much hair below the sock line.
Is the duct tape something Red Green recommends? He uses it for everything you know. Sounds painful to me, like waxing.
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NM, please learn from my youthful mistake and NEVER even try that. It left a big red mark. (My best friend and I were always trying to get rid of unwanted hair, before our mom's let us have razors. We had previously tried Elmer's Glue, and only a few hair peeled off with that. You could not rip that of fast enough.)
I don't even know what SRA is????
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The big red ball...we called them "dodge balls" 'cause we played that game with them. We used them for kickball too.
I remember my elementary gym having two ropes to climb. The girls had to wear shorts under their skirts for the gym activities, but we still had to keep our skirts on. Doesn't that seem stupid now? I'm glad to see more equality in p.e. apparel these days. My entire time in elementary school, girls wore dresses or skirts. In fact, in my jr. high we were only allowed to wear pants on Fridays. My kids thought I was making that up.
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Ok, I'll take your adivce, elimar. No duct tape hair removal.
SRA was/is a reading program used in my grade school. There was a box in the back of the room, it had sections. Each section had a story for the reading assignment, then there were questions to answer about the reading. I remember getting "extra credit" when I turned the answer sheet to the teacher. I think it was intended to improve reading comprehension. It also gave students who read well (meaning faster than the others in class) something to do while waiting for the rest of the class to finish an assignment. I can't remember what SRA stood for. I'll have to go out a see if I can find that info.
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After a quick search it looks like SRA is the name of the company that markets the materials. I vaguely remember something like Supplemental Reading Assignments, but I'm not sure if that is a real memory or my mind trying to fill in the gap!
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OMG Native, I was just talking about the SRA reading and comprehension program last night, only I could not remember the name (all recall of nouns seems to have left me) I loved that program and to this day I love to read, does anyone remember the magazines True Story and Modern Romance?I used to sneak these out of my Mom's beauty shop and read them because they were very "naughty" for their time! When I was back in Omaha for Christmas I was doing some shopping at Walgreens and wanted to get my Mom a magazine and I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw a True Story there on the shelf and I brought it home to my Mom and we had a really good laugh.
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I tried to get my dad to buy me one of those True Story magazines instead of a comic book on a trip once and he said, "No, Becky, you're not going to read trash." I thought to myself, "How is this trash?" but you didn't argue with Dad.
We were only allowed to wear pants at school if it was snowing outside when I was a kid. I do remember being able to wear pants in high school at will. I went to LSU, which had a super conservative Dean of Women, and coeds there couldn't wear pants on campus until 1969! By the time I got there in 1972, it was all hippied out and the girls ran around the sweltering campus in shorts and tube tops.
Duct tape and Elmer's, Elimar? Dang you were desperate!
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Talk about your kids thinking you're making things up, my dad had a bunch of old film spliced together and put on tape several years ago for a Christmas present. Every single birthday party, Christmas, and Easter was on there from the time I was in first grade up until I was about 12. Vacations, too. My kids are sitting there watching my sister and me prancing around in those silly-looking school dresses and petticoats we used to wear back then, the birthday parties, all that, and finally my son said, "Whoa, was it ALWAYS that way when you were a kid?" I was kinda like, "Uh, yeah."
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