Thursday, January 26, 2006
The Sandwich Generation
The "Boomers" are complaining again......Now they have
created this "Sandwich Generation" thing since they have to
watch their kids and parents at the same time......Leaving
no time for themselves......So what else is new.....It was
that way years ago and no one ever complained......
Prior to World War II there were plenty of three story
homes in the world......No one story ranches yet......
Grandma and grandpa had one bedroom on the main
floor, Mom and Pop had their bedroom on the second
floor (The Gramps had it a few years earlier) and the kids
lived on the third floor.......The whole family lived under
one roof and a "Sandwich" was something you had for
lunch.....
Mom and Pop, having left home in their twenties to do
their thing, now find themselves back in the "clan" from
which they came......They sit and cry at the unfairness
of it all.....A fact that Grandma and Grandpa just lived
with, in the normal course of their lives......Pumps
created this "Sandwich Generation" thing since they have to
watch their kids and parents at the same time......Leaving
no time for themselves......So what else is new.....It was
that way years ago and no one ever complained......
Prior to World War II there were plenty of three story
homes in the world......No one story ranches yet......
Grandma and grandpa had one bedroom on the main
floor, Mom and Pop had their bedroom on the second
floor (The Gramps had it a few years earlier) and the kids
lived on the third floor.......The whole family lived under
one roof and a "Sandwich" was something you had for
lunch.....
Mom and Pop, having left home in their twenties to do
their thing, now find themselves back in the "clan" from
which they came......They sit and cry at the unfairness
of it all.....A fact that Grandma and Grandpa just lived
with, in the normal course of their lives......Pumps