Sisyphus table cheap7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() And then he’d go home to eat his Honeycomb or Count Chocula or whatever. ![]() “We can drizzle honey on it!” I’d say, as if that would solve everything. His breath would blow a few rice puffs out of the bowl and across the table. Sitting under a framed movie poster of Richard Attenborough’s “Gandhi,” my friend would stare at an unappetizing breakfast bowl of “natural” cereal I poured for him out of a bulk food bag. I was embarrassed by my un-tradable school lunches and embarrassed at meals when friends spent the night. And my mom shopped for groceries at health food stores, which was much more unusual back then and involved a lot of bulk foods, homegrown sprouts and warm, freshly ground peanut butter. At Christmas, I often got books and clothes. My mom performed in community theater and sometimes roped me into bit parts. I went to a summer camp run by cloistered monks … in heavy brown robes. We went to museums and art stores instead of amusement parks and toy stores. She was, and still is, artistically inclined and health-conscious. Of course, my mother, like all parents, only added to that embarrassment. The modest child support went to school tuition. We lived off one paycheck, or paychecks when my mom held multiple jobs at once. And for that reason, I was also, demonstratively, the poorest kid in my school. Kramer” felt like the documentary of our childhood, and despite being part of a generation of latchkey kids who came home from school while parents were still at work, I was, I confess, embarrassed to be raised by a single mom when I was growing up.įor the majority of my 12 years of Catholic school, I was the only student who lived with one parent. Yet despite growing up in the middle of this trend, in the 1970s and ’80s, when divorce was increasingly common and “Kramer vs. The number of kids being raised by mostly single moms has more than doubled between 19. This has been a growing trend since the late 1960s. And 81% of those single parent homes are headed by a mom. Roughly 24 million, or one-third of all American children under age 18, are living with an unmarried parent, according to a 2018 Pew Research Center analysis of US Census Bureau data. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |