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[quote=Anonymous]Interesting question! Made me realize that I behave exactly as my parents do: always there for a friend in need, but community involvement and volunteering ebbed and flowed at different stages of their lives.

I was the youngest kid in my parents social circle (friends, siblings, and neighbors kids all older) so the whole shower/meal train thing was long gone when my memory kicks in. I know from stories that my mom hosted at least a couple. When I was little little, mom was always busy - raising us, finishing a degree, then starting her own business (in a service/helping field) and working crazy hours. She didn’t do much of this kinda stuff during this time. My parents were divorced with joint custody. Dad was more into that kinda stuff when I was young - coach of allll the little kid sport teams, active at church, on committees. Then HE started building his own company, and his own house, and stepped back from that stuff. Later, mom and my stepdad got more involved with the community and are on a number of boards. My dad has picked a couple of volunteering gigs up since his wife died.

So, overall, I’d say they were active, involved, and helpful. But there were definitely busy times where they were not for stretches of years.

I would add that they never volunteered at school. This was the early nineties, and they definitely had the attitude (fair or not) that that stuff was for moms who didn’t work. Neither had any flexibility during the standard work day. [/quote]

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