Mawmaw Research Paper

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What it is to be Mawmaw

Mawmaw is a brown hair brown eyed beautiful, yet fierce woman. She was born on August 18, 1947 making her 68 years old now. She was blessed with three beautiful children, two girls, and one boy. She also has nine grandchildren, with me being one of them, and spends a lot of time with them. Mama is married and has been married twice prior to the current marriage she's in now. She has four siblings and all, three brothers and one sister. This making Mawmaw the second oldest, yet she has always been the oldest when it comes to wisdom and responsibility of her siblings. With having a life that wasn't the easiest, she made the best of it and definitely has a good story to tell now.
The childhood Mawmaw had to endure wasn't …show more content…

Going into 9th grade is when it hit her; she knew she could go to school and work hard and eventually obtain a career in anything she desired. High school was her turning point, and high school became her favorite. After she came to the realization of what she could do, she worked hard, and strived to make good grades, especially because she wanted to keep playing basketball. Mawmaw played on her high school’s varsity team starting in just 9th grade, and made a big name for herself in that. She became very popular because she didn’t follow anyone and lead her own way, becoming a star player and scoring over 20 points a game. She said she lived and breathed basketball, and it helped her with so many things, including confidence, and independence. When she was 15 years old she lost her father, and not long after her father passed away and her mother remarried to his brother, which according to Mawmaw this ended up being an even worse living situation. All through high school she had her eye on her diploma and knew if she had that she could eventually do what she had dreamt of doing, and eventually moving out and making a better living situation for herself. Her parents influenced her, but not in the ways most parents do. Mawmaw said they influenced her to do the opposite of what …show more content…

Mawmaw’s adulthood wasn't as ideal as she had expected although it took years into her adulthood to find happiness. After her first marriage, which unfortunately ended in divorce, she was left with two children that were 11 months apart, the oldest being a girl, my mother, and the second a boy, to fully take care of. She never gave up them or her situation, and worked hard to provide good living situations and love for them as they grew up. According to Mawmaw she was determined to not use the same parenting style as her parents. She said that she didn’t use a particular parenting style and in her words, “I just used moderate spanking, a lot of understanding, a lot of love, with a dash of grounding”. While she was still in her first marriage and her two children were still young. She went to school for cosmetology and obtained her cosmetology license. She was married a second time and in this marriage she was blessed with her final child, being a girl. This marriage was also less than ideal and came with a lot of hardships resulting in yet one more divorce. After this marriage ended she was left to take care of her daughter who had an 18 year age difference from her last child. She raised her daughter alone basically and gave her a good life while she ran a salon she opened before her marriage to her

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