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Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for sharing MA.

One always wants the best for one's children and one attempts to guide them and instruct them while they are still receptive. At a certain point one's influence wanes and peers and cultural cues take precedence. It sounds like you've done your job well, she knows what she wants and will carve for herself a clear path towards her goals.

An Anglo-American relationship does inherently possess a few landmines in the customs and family department. There is a formal 'distance' in many European families that a tightknit American family will not quite be accustomed to. There's also certain lingering sexist views about male/female roles. It's not as bad with Englishmen as it is with some European males, but generally European males are not quite as "enlightened" as the American male.

I like the ways she addresses the children in the library, that approach will serve her and the children well. Everyone needs to be treated with a certain dignity and respect, and those who do so can expect such respect in turn.

I hope you're bracing yourself for being called "grandma" pretty soon. Those things sneak up on one...

...fast!

;-)

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