Who do you respect a lot?

[masha]

I for example have a lot of respect for teachers in poor countries who are there for NO MONEY to help these kids to educate.

Also nurses, and other jobs who help people out. Who do you respect a lot(jobs/persons whatever)

Love Masha

[Larry Mason]

HARD WORKING MOMS

HARD WORKING STUDENTS

And especially, some Moms who are also trying to be Students.

I respect anyone who has to work very hard to achieve their goals.

In these days, a lot of extra burden is falling on Women. They still have to do most of the traditional work that has always been their "share," but besides all of that, they have new roles.

They have to help earn a living for the family.

They have to be "soccer Mom's" and take all the kids to different activities and lessons, also go shopping and buy the food, etc

They have to continue their education so they will still be able to compete in their jobs.

= But the salary schedules are still mostly controlled by MEN, who seem to have decided that women should be paid only 70% as much (somebody's statistical average).

[masha]

Originally posted by Tristan
On Jan 22 of last year, Tori woke and up and found her mother dead in the kitchen. She called the police, ambulance, her grandmother, my work emergency number, everyone she needed to ... tried to do CPR ... and when the police arrived was sitting there holding her mothers hand crying and saying 'all will be ok, momma'. She was 8 years old.

Since then, she's grown up so much, now at 9 she helps takes care and is protective of both me her little sister, she volunteers to go in to visit and sing to the people at the nursing/retirement homes, and during the summer the local library has story times each morning for kids, and Tori goes in and reads several times a week when she can.

Trist

Got the back home about 3 this morning, I'm most happy now!

Looks like you got a little angel!

Love Masha

[zulu]

Respect to all people who got a lot of ethics! There are some jobs which do imply this characteristic. Ethics is a wide spread synonym, i guess. What i mean, is treating ALL creatures in a considerate manner!

Sadly most people (especially the substantial)), but surely not all don't care about morale anymore. And if they show some morale in spending money, they probably try to valorize their prestige. That's MY opinion!

Respect to all who work altruistic!

And finally no respect to them which are interested in basically gathering money, which is a very common sport in our "brave new world"!
Btw: Don't tell me that's the way it works! It's the way humans can be but don't have to be if they are really intellectual!

see ya...
zulu

[Larry Mason]

Tris, NO WAY can I match your Tori, but I have a young cousin. I call her Rabet, who also had to grow up kinda fast. You gotta respect gals like that a lot.

Rabet was born in 1990 - now 14. When she was little her dad (my uncle Dan) and her mom kept arguing. Sometimes very loudly; but not hitting each other I think.

In 1995 when Rabet was 5 her baby brother Kevin was born. I think the parents hoped that would help save their marriage, but it didn't. A few months later Dan moved out.

But he did not abandon the kids. At least the parents were civil enough to agree on an informal shared custody arrangement.

Dan rented an unfurnished apartment, and on weekends and some other days the kids stayed there with him. At first the only furniture was a matress (on the floor) for Dan and Rabet, and a crib from GoodWill for Kevin.

Their Mom was (is) a bit of a flake - that was part of the problem all along. Whenever she brought them to Dan's place after they'd been staying with her, she never kept track of Kevin's shoes (and other stuff). Soon Rabet (not even 6 years old yet) started checking and reminding her Mom, when they got in the car to go to Dan's, about whatever they had forgotten to pack. Rabet was already a better mom to Kevin than his mother was.

Life has not been easy. After 4 years of "pillar to post" there was a divorce and soon both parents had remarried (1999). Dan's new wife included Rabet and Kevin in a kinda "bonding" ceremony at the wedding.

The 50-50 custody split was formalized. From then till fall 2001, the kids lived with their birth Mom during the week and with Dan on weekends, in two different towns about 60 miles apart.

Then in 2001 Rabet finished 5th grade, which was the highest grade at her elementary school. Dan submitted a request that he might become the "School Parent," but through most of the summer the Powers that Be had not acted on the request.

That summer, I happened to be appointed Transportation Chairman, in charge of driving Rabet to enroll at a 2-week Horse Riding day-camp for 11 year old girls. While they were waiting to enroll, all the girls were discussing which school they would be attending.

When Rabet was asked, her reply was, "Well, I'm either going to Washington Middle School at [city where birth mom lives], or else to Happy Valley [private school near Dan's]. My parents are divorced, and it's a big mess!"

That last sentence burned into my brain.

(Two weeks before school started, it was finally decided that Dan would henceforth be "school parent," and that Rabet and Kevin would attend Happy Valley.)