My Grandma Shirley Research Paper

Older people tell stories all the time about their childhoods and what it was like back then, but do people really listen? I find myself asking this questions when I think of my own grandparents. It makes me wonder if I really know them or not. My Grandma Shirley is a 77 year old outgoing woman who makes everyone laugh. Born in the 1940’s definitely allowed her to experience many aspects of life that I wasn't able to experience myself. I knew that life was different many decades ago but I didn't realize how different until I asked my grandma about how her family was like growing up, or how it was like interacting with her friends. Other Social changes like going to school and having relationships in those times might be unusual to my generation today but back then it was just everyday things people like my grandma enjoyed doing.

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Family was important but as my grandma described it, it was bothersome as a kid. Growing up in an average sized family with a younger sister and older brother, which left my grandma as the middle child. Her father was a stern man with his kids and as my mother tells me he was always sitting in a recliner in his underwear when she ever visited. As the eldest man of the house my grandma said, “there was no negotiations with him, you do what he said and that was that.” Even attending extended family events she described them as dreadful but you had to do what father said. Since my grandma was one of the oldest children she had to do all the chores before even asking her father to go play with her friends outside. “Cleaning the dishes was the worst thing I had to every night because I was so excited to go finish