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Non-Traditional Childhood: Growing Up Different

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Growing Up Different Two kids are screaming in the bathtub while three others running around fighting over some toy, bed time is in thirty minutes and everyone is nowhere near close. Ten there is me, 13 year old kid managing five siblings because my parents got a divorce. Wow. huh? While this period in my life was crazy hectic and quite interesting, it wont be the focus today. What I am here to talk about today is myself in the present, and how my non-traditional childhood has made me different. Different and more prepared than 90% of the kids my age for adult life and the challenges there in. Responsibility, "The state or fact of having a duty to deal with something, or having control over someone". Some of my very first responsibilities

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