My mom and I sit down and discuss some memories from her childhood. We talked about what life was like growing up in Mississippi in the 1950's. She talks about her siblings, her father, chores, fun memories, etc.—-All right. So they were talking with Helen easily. Happens to be my mother and mom. Tell me about what it was like. This is the story of of not being able to lay in the bed during the day so let's just talk about that. What was it like for you growing up. You can't go to bed during the day. Well I grew up on a farm and my dad he had these standards. Around our house. But I woke up five o'clock no later than 6:00. And you didn't get you didn't get to have a choice you had to get up yet had list things day and in the early morning. I mean when you have one of 13 children go to draw water. Jada it's breakfast you got wash dishes you got to gather eggs. Got to go out to the fields and gather Hayes and corn and butter beans and okra and big a bushel baskets of these things. And I started doing this. I was five years old five years old and you're carrying this heavy vegetables that you picked for two hours. The Siblin happened but we had to walk in steps and say Today I'm is actually kind of funny thinking back on it because we weren't strong enough but we became stronger because we were using our muscles and we were we had to do because we the weeding get it done when at the end of the day my dad would check the safe. We did what he told us today and if we didn't do it he lines up we all got a switch and you said OK let's go there was a switch and you go. It was it did not for my dad. That was not what you wanted. Dad had no mercy. It was not a matter of but this. But that Dad would just say take the switch to the boat you do today this and he would go out and out in the yard and we'd have these peach trees out there and he would cut off one of those little pastry lambs. And you talked about it's not teaching it her. And he would have red welts on your legs. You didn't want but one of those you realized if you didn't get it if you didn't get your job done you better get you better get somebody to help you anyway because you knew you didn't face Daddy. Yeah. The fear of a parent does instill good things in a child when a child fears and respects a parent. It helps a child a healthy respect because even though my dad didn't do it that way but my dad knew that keep us busy and as long as we were busy it took any and it took all of us doing what had to be done to keep family going to keep things smooth so that it didn't fall on one person that wouldn't let that happen had and go out and work all day long at a lumber Mayo. And he had hired help that they'd be at now these logs and bring them in there and he'd be overseeing these people to address this lumber for people that wanted to build some kind of commercial build in our house somewhere and he'd work all day around here and then come home and eat when I get home like six or seven o'clock at night and actually work it out. I like that Ali one day is just wash up come inside and sit down to eat and rest. Well then he had all of us around him. Not even the hand go out in the field and he would throw us play ball with us say throw the ball we throw horse we'd pitch for shoes. My dad he was one it was always playing with us kids. I never remember my mother doing that with us but daddy did. How many kids there was 13 of us. I was six boys and seven girls. Wow. Before it record you mentioned something about squash you hated picking squash would hate squash now and actually was squash that got this fuzzy hot prickly thing on the vines and and when you start to try to get into the van you know your arms are going to be touched with all that. So you learn where long slays because it rub up against this guy and they get irritated O

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