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Welcome to our blog, Rafael-M-Baby
and this post, an old man life story
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An old man life story
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Life story of forebear
An old man life story
Dear readers,
when there is not enough to say about this new born baby, we are going to write
a life story of one of his forbear. Because we want this blog to be active
enough to be noticed from search engines, So, let me start my life story, which
I call an old man life story.
An old man life story
Let me tell you a
story and transport you to another place and to another time, at the time when
I was a young kid and my mother or my grandma in the evening would tell me a story
just to keep me happy and go to bed and sleep.
Oh, my god! What
did I say? Tell you fairy tales that the elders of my time were telling me when
I was a young kid; no, sorry my dear readers I have made a mistake and I
apologize, because you see today I don’t remember much about those stories that
the elders of my time were telling me, even though those stories seemed very
interesting to us kids then; here I need to tell you that in those times
mothers and grandmothers had always a story to tell the kids, it was the only
way to keep us kids quiet as there was no TV and most time not even a radio for
miles, the only news in those times were in the newspapers, if one could borrow
it from somebody that could afford to buy it, the rest of the news were the
local news that the people of the town would tell each other, so that they
would know what was happening around them, so people would pass them around by
word of mouth. Anyhow the stories that these old ladies would tell us were as
good as any other story, and if the famous Brothers Grimm had known them they
would have written them in their stories book. The Annotated Brothers Grimm
: Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
Here I would like
to point out that a lot of things have changed since I was a kid, but I still
remember lot of things that I would like to tell you, so let me go on. Now that
I happen to be talking about the mothers and grandmothers of those times, I would
like to add how they worked hard to keep kids quiet in those times, we will
come to talk about my life story soon, as soon as I finish telling you this old
fact of life; because here I would like to add something else that today does
not happen anymore in the western world, I am saying the western world because
what these old ladies were doing then might still be done in very backward
countries today one can never know; I can just imagine that there might still
be a few places where progress as not taken place, and therefore people are
still using those skills that their forbears have used for centuries or even
thousands of years.
Anyhow let me
describe to you what these old ladies did to put a child to sleep, they would
take the child in their arms sit on a sturdy chair and sing a lullaby while
they were rocking the chair until the child would go to sleep, or do the same
thing by putting the child in a rocking cradle and rock the cradle and sing a
lullaby, those times were a lot harder than today for young mothers as you can
see for yourself, not only they had to look after the child, but they had also
wash everything by hand as there were not any washing machine, or any throw
away paper devises that would keep the child clean, so, they had to rely or their
skills that they had picked up from their elders and work hard to keep things
going properly.
Today is a lot
easier for a young mother, because of the washing machine and other things that
make life less stressful, even singing lullaby is gone out of fashion, perhaps
it is because there is so much music songs and everything else around us, so,
singing lullaby is out of fashion, and for this reason you cannot hear any
mother singing their lullaby to their child in any town, I guess that even in
the country outside towns they don’t sing anymore, it is the sign of the time
people are not born singers, those young mothers were singing then because they
had to, it was their job to keep their children quiet even if their singing was
out of tune as long as their child was satisfied. You see, children are
attention seeker and they were happy as long as they knew that there was
somebody looking after them, and to hear their mother singing to them and
rocking them would satisfy them and fall asleep. Anyhow this is how it was done
in those old days.
Now let me point
out this to you. Today it is a lot easier, because we can replace those
lullabies with some real music from professionals, you need only a link and a
device that can link to it, you click on this link, and everything is done for
you.
I hope this you
tube link works for you.
I believe that I
have said enough in this article, because we would like to keep them short,
since people like them this way.
See you soon, with
next post about, my life story.
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An old man life story
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An old man life story
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