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Smitty37

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I once attended a company sponsored event that said that what our attitudes are as adults is determined by what we were exposed to at age 10. Where were you at age 10?

I will give you just one example - I get a certain feeling when I see the US Flag pass by - in my early life we were told to 'stand when the flag passes by, be attentive and place your right hand over your heart" That just exemplifies my attitude toward the flag of our country.
 
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Nick said:
I am 71 years old, I cannot remember when I was 10 YO.
I was very lucky to have such wonderful parents, I lost my Mother when I was 18 YO. All of my woodworking skills I learned from my Dad
Thanks Dad
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:smile::smile:LOL You were very likely in about 4th or 5th grade - and you're 5 years younger than I am about the same age as my wife - she can't remember where she was either.:smile::smile:
 
I had the teacher from hell but I also had the prettiest student teacher, I had a crush on the sweetest girl, the Viet Nam war and war protests were on the news every night, I took a rhythm test and was one of two kids that was not recruited for band or chorus, i had to write I will not throw rocks 1000 times, someone told me about sex and
I did not believe them, and My Flintstones lunch box was taken away from me because I whacked a kid in the head with it. All in all- a pretty traumatic year and yeah I can see how my attitudes may have been shaped by that year.
 
We had just moved to CT from NY after my father died and vietnam war had just ended so saturday cartoons were back on. Not to mention my 5th grade teacher was one of my memorable influential adults I ever encountered.
 
That was 1964, I like someone posted earlier had a A-Hole for a teacher. And while my dad was around he might as well not have been, all us kids were good for was doing chores so he could sit on his butt. And yes I can see that.
 
It would have been 1964, I was in Catholic school. We said the pledge of allegiance every morning. How when the flag passed by or they play the national anthem. I come to attention and salute. I burns me up when folks keep talking or texting and pay no attention.
 
1951, was living on Hoe Ave. in the Bronx in a 6 story walk-up, had a candy store a block away a bakery two doors down and the El (over head subway) one block away on Southern Boulevard. Played stick ball, cork ball and kick the can.
 
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That was 5th grade, and my Dad was stationed in Charleston, SC on a sub. We lived about a mile outside of Summerville in a new development with acres and acres of woods in our backyard. Little League; riding the bike 1/4 mile down the highway to general store to buy Cherry Bombs and Ash Cans; setting them off in the back yard; riding the mile into town to go to the Saturday matinee and expecting my bike to be there when the movie let out; camping in the backyard; my first experience with childhood mortality when a 16 year old boy who lived 3 doors down died of Leukemia ( I still think about that). My teacher's name was Miss Hellman, who I thought was 90 years old. When we came back from Christmas vacation, she was Mrs. Gary. I always thought Miss Hellman was more appropriate.
 
That, for me, would have been 1995. I had my first job making $10/day starting at 6:00 a.m. working 20 minutes every hour until 6:00p.m. as a deckhand on a ferry. I also experienced the loss of a good friend whose funeral was the day of my eleventh birthday (his death was caused by idiots that were told to leave his sister's birthday party then came back and did a drive-by shooting). I experienced family drama as my mother and I temporarily moved away from my abusive stepfather. I think many of the events that occurred at that age helped to mold the person I am today.
 
if its 5th grade, I learned what the wiggle of an older girls(8th grade) behind could do to a boys mind as she walked down the hall. That would also be 1980-81.

I don't remember much after that, and that was the 2nd week of school.
 
10 years old... I think I was entering the 5th grade. I don't remember much about being 10, but I do remember the 5th grade. Best 4 years of my life.

Seven
 
Living on the Navajo Reservation. Had already been there for 5 years, and would be on and off the reservation for 20 more years. Definitely shaped my world view.
 
Smitty37 said:
I once attended a company sponsored event that said that what our attitudes are as adults is determined by what we were exposed to at age 10. Where were you at age 10?

I will give you just one example - I get a certain feeling when I see the US Flag pass by - in my early life we were told to 'stand when the flag passes by, be attentive and place your right hand over your heart" That just exemplifies my attitude toward the flag of our country.
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Same here different flag however I respect the stars and stripes as well. We grew up schooled to respect our flag and for me it was 1944 in this great country of AUSTRALIA, my Dad was in Palestine and our very borders were threatened and damaged our families had been at war since 1939 when I was five. I have zero tolerance for lack of respect for where you live.

Hi Nick as well.

Kind regards Peter.
 
For me that would have been 1948. I won a $5.00 first prize for decorating my bike for the 4th of July parade in my small home town. I also remember the end of WWII a few years earlier. I was sitting in my dad's car listening to the radio when the news broke. Good old days for sure.
 
my dad was hospitalized for two years at that time of my life and my mom and worked to eat. times were tough. That time in my life really does have an impact on my life decisions especially finances. We were very poor.
 
pwhay said:
Smitty37 said:
I once attended a company sponsored event that said that what our attitudes are as adults is determined by what we were exposed to at age 10. Where were you at age 10?

I will give you just one example - I get a certain feeling when I see the US Flag pass by - in my early life we were told to 'stand when the flag passes by, be attentive and place your right hand over your heart" That just exemplifies my attitude toward the flag of our country.
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Same here different flag however I respect the stars and stripes as well. We grew up schooled to respect our flag and for me it was 1944 in this great country of AUSTRALIA, my Dad was in Palestine and our very borders were threatened and damaged our families had been at war since 1939 when I was five. I have zero tolerance for lack of respect for where you live.

Hi Nick as well.

Kind regards Peter.
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I would think that being Australian the War would if anything have had even more influence in your life than it did mine....
 
Ten brought me TENsion

I was 10 and my parents forced me to take classical guitar lessons and I was listening to The Beatles and wanted an electric guitar. Guess who won? Not me.
 
Let's see, that would have been 1953. I was in Tulsa Oklahoma, finishing fourth grade at my grandparent's because my mother had pneumonia and was in the hospital. Earlier that year I was in Casper, Wyoming. What I remember most was going to the drive-in theater in Casper to see a Hopalong Cassidy movie, and William Boyd made a personal appearance with Topper. He stood on the saddle and did rope tricks, and we were permitted to pet Topper. Don't remember much more about that year.
 
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Let's see, that would have been 1953. I was in Tulsa Oklahoma, finishing fourth grade at my grandparent's because my mother had pneumonia and was in the hospital. Earlier that year I was in Casper, Wyoming. What I remember most was going to the drive-in theater in Casper to see a Hopalong Cassidy movie, and William Boyd made a personal appearance with Topper. He stood on the saddle and did rope tricks, and we were permitted to pet Topper. Don't remember much more about that year.
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I do remember William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy on TV....fight for half of the TV show and never lose his hat.
 
The symposium or class that I was at was really saying that by the time you are 10 to 12 years old, most of your attitudes have been formed for life.

One example given was industrial dicipline. If you wanted to really disipline someone who grew up during the drepression and WW2 and you said "Take off 3 days without pay" they would have been devistated....If you said that to a baby boomer they might very well come back with "Gee, boss couldn't you make that a week, I'd like to go to Myrtle Beach....l"
 
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