Think of your usual daily routine, write a list of the things you do in an "average" day. Then write an essay of your life, doing this routine, 50 years ago. How would it differ from today? Could you do as much? Or do you think you would have accomplished far more then?

Personally speaking, as the mother of two small boys in this modern age of modern conveniences, I have no idea how mothers managed with so many children and so few, what we would call necessary, amenities - especially in my grandparents generation!

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