uh well let's see
how many you said yours are all i mean that sounds like an army
five
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that is an army i came from a family of six
and i have only got two and they're one
well any number is nice let me tell you
well i kind of decided that single single children that that
that's not parenting that's a hobby but
yeah it's not as fair to the children either i don't think
well don't tell that to all my friends
they're into quality time i'm just into getting through the day
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yeah but sometimes you can hurt them by having too much quality time too
well i i can i can spot a kid who really you know whose parents spend every quality time with them you know outside of the work day and when i take care of some people's kids you know when they when they have teachers' holidays and that kind of stuff i will take my friends' kids
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that are usually in day care and you can spot them because they have no idea how to just hang out and mess around
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you can tell
how to just entertain themselves
yeah really
yeah yeah
it's a problem for any child and you take one that's used to being
uh busy being having something to do all the time it makes a big difference
it's not a problem for my two they're only eighteen months apart
uh keeps you busy
they can
they can find things to do and mess around and and
yeah
plot and scheme and everything else so you did all five of yours complete college
well that's great
no our last daughter she didn't want to go to school she's uh but she's married now they built a home just a couple miles from us and
well how did you go about selecting a college then
well we didn't do it right all the time with our first boy we persuaded him to start here and i do not always think you should try to make them stay closer to home i think the main thing is to uh
right now i feel the main thing is to look at what they're interested in uh and take what they're interested in and then then start looking for schools
do you think that what they say that they are interested in is at eighteen is going to be what they are ultimately ultimately graduating at
no not necessarily
and but like our oldest boy i think he would have he wanted to go to Embrey Ray Riddle and we talked him into going local here first
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and he only went a few months and then transferred to Pittsburgh he went to aeronautical uh oh just learning to work on engines and that
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uh it has to do with airplanes and everything which is what his whole life is and i really wish we would have let him go where he wanted to go originally
and he would probably be flying is what he would be doing uh but but right now of course he's he's working for Pratt and Whitney in Connecticut and they build and rebuild uh jet engines
how about the other four other three who went
uh the other ones uh the second one she chose we let her go where she wanted to uh we didn't want her to go but she went to Erie to Gannan University uh or Gannan College i'm not sure which it is college i guess
uh she went there two years and it was more expensive and she soon realized you know even though she didn't like Clarion she came back and finished at Clarion
because it uh saved her quite a bit of money and she got really the same basic education that she wanted
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and our other uh two boys they went to Clarion also and uh did very well there
and they've all really got uh
they've all really got really good jobs
and uh
when they were like in junior high and high school i mean had they did they have an idea that they were definitely going to go to college and
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uh yeah they kind of had that they just expected to go Daphne never went she always said she would never go to college
she said i i always thought she'd change her mind you know but she didn't and there's nothing wrong with that you know if college isn't for everybody
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but uh it it does make a difference in your pay wage income i think it's what they want out of life
because if they get an education
and are willing to go where the jobs are
they can make a you know a much better income
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like my kids they're all making more than my husband was making when he retired from the state
yeah i was i was making more than i was making three times what my father was making as an executive in the insurance industry when he retired
you know that boggles my mind
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okay did you go to college
yes i went uh four years undergrad at University of Nebraska at Lincoln because Lincoln is where where my parents lived and there really
you did see it makes a difference
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there really wasn't a choice i mean the finances uh dictated that you had to go there
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i kind of i am not going to say i resent it but i was well one of the national merit scholarship qualifying and you know one of the Rhodes Scholars kids and the whole bit um
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my parents didn't even discuss with me going to college out of state or anyplace else and i just knew that the finances you know would not support it if i had known
someplace else
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how not i'm not going to say easy but how
much less difficult than i thought it would be to get a uh
scholarship to go anyplace else i think that i
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would definitely you know have gone now when i finished there then i got a scholarship to go to the Harvard University in Boston and that was uh i think that was probably one of the best things that had ever happened i mean i was
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that's great
taken out of my element you know the the the homogeneous Midwest which is a lovely place to grow up and put into someplace else where people thought differently looked differently sounded differently uh
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different life styles yes yeah
different life style and i think it was probably one of the best things that ever happened to me
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now my kids i keep saying that uh you know i would like them to go to the best school that they possibly could
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i don't know you know what the realities is going to look like you know we're putting money away already uh but i really think it's important to put these children someplace where in addition to
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you know them getting an education they really need a a you know a socialization away from what they are raised in especially if you lived a pretty insular community and uh
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an upper class suburb of Dallas let me tell you
it's quite a bit different
it's very different
see that's the way w e are we're more of a rural type of a area
and it does make a difference
i they say you shouldn't look at the expense of the college when you are looking
you should not
yeah not really because they say a lot of times you get more help
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with a more expensive college
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and so in the long run if it's really what they want
you know they're better off now our children all pretty much borrowed for their school uh we we did all we could
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but they pretty much had to borrow a lot of their money to go
