Little Miss Know It All - Betty

David Dawn

Description

This is a great short story with very good reviews. This book is about a mixed Irish and Dutch teenager who was raise in the Roaring 20's and ran away in the late 1920's.Only to run into the Great Depression of the 30's. She lead her life following her emotions which got her into a lot of trouble. Betty had 8 children and raised 6 of them on her own. Always moving... being chased by bill collectors and the police. The Woman's Rights era in the 20's to the 60's influenced her life. They fought for equality on the job and in the home. The organization help give her the strength to change in a world of negativity from a bias male driven society. Later in life she started controlling her emotions and thus led a better life for her self and her children. Betty became a great community leader and was highly respected from the community business owners.
Betty wanted teenagers and young adults to know that they are the only thing holding themselves back from doing what is right and living a productive life. To achieve this young people need to realize that their negative thoughts and habits keeps them in a self-created ego prison molded out of mental bars that keep them in fear of success as a well-rounded adult. It is very hard to change habits and it takes true and continued commitment. It can take up to to several years to truly make the change but it greatly depends on how determined you are to make the change. Remember each new day gives a person another chance to continue their fight for changing to be the person who they really want to be.

Sujets

• Autobiography
• Betty
• Biography

Informations

• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 13 juin 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669828020
• Langue: English

Extrait

LITTLE MISS KNOW IT ALL - BETTY
 
 
 
 
 
David Dawn
 
Copyright © 2022 by David Dawn.
Library of Congress Control Number:
2022910208
ISBN:
Hardcover
978-1-6698-2804-4
 
Softcover
978-1-6698-2803-7
 
eBook
978-1-6698-2802-0

 
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.
 
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Rev. date: 05/31/2023
 
 
 
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
 
1 ST Chapter
Little Miss Abercrombie
2 ND Chapter
Living the Real Life as an Adult
3 RD Chapter
Making Babies
4 TH Chapter
Hard Times Raising Children
5 T H Chapter
Growing Pains
6 TH Chapter
The Move to Seattle
7 TH Chapter
The Golden Years
8 TH Chapter
A Commentary from the Author
Appendix A
Teenagers Coming into Adulthood
Appendix B
Mental Disorders (ADHD)
Appendix C
The Suffrage Movement for Women Civil Rights
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I sincerely thank everyone for their time, concern and support giving their input into the remaking of this book:
Ethel
Phyllis
Ed
John
Donna
Steve “G” and Eileen
David
Jack
A special thanks to Steve “G” and Phyllis who helped in editing (aka ghostwriters).
I must say, Steve is my mentor and teacher in writing.
Last but not least . . . Mom.
Without these people this book would not be a really good short story. Thank you for all of your help in making this happen. Bless you all.
INTRODUCTION
This book is based on a true story of a woman named Betty. This story is taken from Betty’s life events and situations. All of the names of the people from her past have been changed.
Betty’s story is presented in her later years as a conversation between her and a young teenage runaway girl, who was pregnant and homeless. Betty was raised in the roaring twenties. As a teenager, she was influenced by all the new machines and gadgets of the era. This introduced new ideas in dressing, thinking and social speech. Betty ran away from her home to seek out a new life for herself sometime between the end of the roaring twenties and during the beginning of the Great Depression. This was not good timing for Betty, as it made her life even harder for her coming into adulthood.
The 1930s was an especially interesting period because the Great Depression took center stage. Living through that period while (a) facing societies discrimination from different races and (b) the different classes of a race was especially difficult for many women. Betty was one of the lucky ones because she was a white woman who stayed away from drugs and the criminal environment (aka the street life ). However, she made very poor decisions when it came to selecting men. These decisions made living life very hard for her and her family due to:
• Following her emotions to the extent of creating a negative living condition.
• Betty’s immature ways of thinking and the belief that she knew it all backfired most of the time and the idea of her being wrong didn’t even cross her mind.
Most teenagers who run away from home come to find out that they have made a mistake. Unfortunately, a lot of them were like Betty, who had too much pride to go back home.
All teenagers go through the emotional choices which include:
• Being rebellious to the basic standard of their family rules.
• Being self-centered and not caring for other people’s thoughts and wishes.
• Wanting to experience all the different situations life has to offer.
• Refusing to follow the rules of society that she knew was for her own good.
Many teenagers do not realize that in most of the cases it is never too late to go back home and finish growing up to become a young adult, with the added wisdom and knowledge of their parents. Most teenagers only have three or four years to live with their parents before they turn eighteen. At that time, they can legally move out on their own with the support of their parents. This is actually . . . the most important part of life for a teenager. At this time of life, new adult experiences happen. Having the support of family to consult as different events arise is important. It can help a person make the right decisions without really having to worry about eating, sleeping and having a safe place to relax. The wisdom from these events will help mold a young adult into becoming a well-rounded productive citizen in our society. The rebellious ones and their families will suffer by living in a financially deprived and unsupported environment.
Some people say that we are living here for a reason, and we will not die until we have fulfilled our reason for being. Betty strongly believed in this. She raised her kids to be hardworking, loving adults, and showed them that people can change the negative cycles and bad habits that are in their lives. It doesn’t matter the age of the individual because they still can work on making these changes with each new day. This gives a person another chance to continue their fight for changing themselves to become the person they really want to be.
For a person to achieve the goal of moving their family into a higher class of citizenship in the future, that person should continue their fight without succumbing to negative cycles and habits. In order to do this, a person must learn their real history by knowing where and how their family lived in the past. The family history will explain the reason why the family has negative habits and cycles, which includes (a) how they think, and (b) their beliefs and morals in life. With this knowledge, a person can break the negative cycles of their family history and create positive cycles and habits while creating a stronger family structure. All that is needed to make these changes are:
• Getting the complete and true family information.
• Understanding the family information this is the key to having the wisdom to make the needed positive changes.
• Making a person’s drive greater to succeed;
• Making a person’s determination greater to achieve a desired goal.
• Making a person’s commitment to family and self to succeed.
This is what Betty did in the mental aspect of her life. This is also what a young adult must have in their life to be a well-rounded individual.
Betty lived through the Great Depression. She watched and joined the way people were really being treated on a daily basis. There is many women making great sacrifices in every aspect of life. The factory workers during the war were called Rosie’s. There are a lot of ladies today who do not even realize these sacrifices the ladies of the Suffrage Movement had made to allow today’s modern women to be accepted in society as an equal individual. This had a critical impact on Betty’s life as she learned about how the movement was organized and played out within her lifetime. She began to understand that women across the nation had fought to have a choice and a voice. Ladies had to fight for equal respect in the home and on the job, even though the American public was very critical of women working and mixing with non-white races. All these issues affected Betty and her family during several periods of her life.
These many sacrifices in all the different aspects of life included:
• mental
• physical
• social
• financial
• spiritual
Betty experienced firsthand these categories of great sacrifices that affected all the women’s friends and family members, as well as millions of other people in every way thinkable. This was done for themselves and for the generations to come so that our grandbabies could have a better chance making a good wage and to have some of the things a family really needs to live a well-rounded life.
Betty learned that individual parents have different techniques in raising children due to the different lifestyles and the way they were raised as children. She knew we must keep an open mind to new ideas and techniques as the children grow and change. Keeping the door of communication open will work wonders in running a family. As good parents, we must work on changing the negative cycles that have stayed with us and our parents for the good of our own families. This is important in order to have a well-rounded child, and to show the children what is needed to be a proud citizen of a hardworking community. That has a well-rounded family.
Betty turned to a deep state of depression due to the many different events that unfolded due to her misjudgment. All the different classes and races must go through life’s struggles due to one reason or another, which creates emotional problems that can slowly lead to:
• Self-anger against family and community.
• A buildup of an individual’s frustration.
• A person not caring and receiving a less quality education.
• Being a prospective employee and not obtaining a good paying job.
• Always choosing the easy way out. On the job o