The thing is when I was watching your program with that "father" that demanded the attention from her daughter and she didn't do what he asked I could just see my dad doing the same thing.
If my father had stayed well he was very very strick because he was Austrian and very demanding because that is the way he was raised.
I thank God don't remember this but when I was a baby he would make us stay on the potty until we went to the bathroom no matter how many hours it would take. I guess that is why I try to get out of bathroom as soon as possible but I didn't know why. My aunt that is now ninety-eight years old told me about that.
Even when he was ill with a very bad stroke he would kick me or anybody in the shin if we made to much noise when the NEWS was on. He was the head of the household even though he couldn't speak like you and I do but he spoke volumes in so many different ways. Don't get me wrong I loved him but on the other hand I feared him.
One day when we were still living in Central America and he was well my sister wanted to go to the fair and my father hated red lipstick because in Austria when a woman wore red lipstick well you know what kind of woman that was. She asked my mother if it were alright to wear red lipstick and she figured that daddy wouldn't go there but you know how things are he went. He stood far enough away from her and called her and when she turned around she had red lipstick on. He went over to her demanded for her to give the lipstick she did and he threw on the ground and stamped it into the ground and told her to go home. It was his way or no way and that is the way it was no questions asked.
My mother was very strick as well because she was English so there were so many rules that rules had rules and that is the way it was and we never smart mouthed them or our teeth would end up some place where we did them to be. I really did fear either one or the other I had enough respect not to cross the line and all of us knew the line and that is the way we were raised.
Then I really didn't like it but today I am thankful because I know and still know today as old as I am what is expected of you but at the time it was hard.
My mother raised four (4) children and took care of my father 24/7 and worked outside the home and took so good care of all of us and we always went by the rules. My mother was always my mother and I knew the line not cross we became friends when she reached her 70's but I never crossed the line and if I did she told me in no uncertain terms but she was the greatest mother anyone could have hands down.
I just thought I would tell you about my mom because I truely miss her in the holidays more than I do all year long.