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Time! is very important to us all. Our everyday lives revolve around the everyday clock. Even to those who are retired or semi retired. These days the days pass us by in a blink of an eye. We sit back and try to remember what we have done the day before. Sometimes I think, were have all the years gone. We are a group of baby boomers, which have grown up fast. Our children have grown up faster, again and live life at a different speed to us.

When we grew up our parents were coming out of the affects of depression, war and resettling after war times. They were trying to gather things together and give their children things they never had. From the late forties to the early fifties, there were a lot of inventions. Washing machines became electric, fridges were no longer just an icebox, and Television came to Australia in the late fifties. I can remember going to a friends place to watch the first transmission. It was no longer strange to see a wife working, it became the normal way of life.

For us going to school in the Fifties and Sixties we were experiencing different times, the Beatles, Vietnam War demonstrations, radio broadcast, and television broadcast of the Vietnam War, the first war to be seen around the world on television, the space exploration and Apollo 13. It was a different time for us, we were the first to experience different times in education to our parents. Some of our parents were not educated; it was hard for them to understand what we were learning. Not only that they were having trouble understanding the young and how we were growing up in a different time, beach parties, dances, radio and television. Life was moving in a different direction our parents of this time; they had trouble dealing with the freedoms of the time.

We became parents, were dealing with children moving so fast and being educated faster than us. We never had computers, C.D.'s D.V.D's Internet and Bluetooth techknowledge. To some of us it is hard for us to pick up, we battle with the tech-knowledge of the times, but we get there with the help of the kids and friends who have worked in the field. Before we know it our kids are grown up and off our hands. Us baby boomer's are free again to learn more, sometimes those of us that are willing to learn from our kids. We are able to go on holidays when we want too. Things we haven't done for a long time, we only hope we have saved up enough for those supposed to be "golden years". We are the "Y Generation" moving on to a different

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