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[southernyankeebelle]

5. I have a 7 yr old granddaughter.

I tell her mostly every day the following:

Dream Big

Work Hard

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something when you know you can.

Be responsible for your own actions

Finish high school

Go to college and get a degree to depend upon yourself just in case you never get married or
want to get married.

Don't have a baby til after you finish college, then if you want find the right man wait 2 yrs then have a baby. But don't have a baby if you don't want one.

No one can make you happy but yourself. Don't depend on a man to do that.

I know she is young but you have to start young. I don't want my granddaughter to end up like her mother, her aunt and grandma on her mother's side and great grandmother on her mothers side. I don't come from that kind of a background. I try to tell her over and over that my little sister (her aunt) went to college and became a dentist because she worked hard and dreamt big. Now her twin daughter and going to dental school. I told her she can be anything she wants to be as long as she works hard. She has to have your support and the rest of the families support. Then she will be fine. It's up to us.