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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 8439038, member: 100459&quot;]It would be interesting to find out how many of us are grandfathers and/or great-grandfathers.&nbsp; I have 3 grown and married &quot;children&quot;.&nbsp; They are all married and have children.&nbsp; I have 13 grandchildren.&nbsp; Only one is married and only recently. I must have done something right because only 6 have graduated from college, but only because the others are still in high school.&nbsp; I have one granddaughter that is on a Soccer Scholarship at East Carolina University (my Alma Mater).&nbsp; Another granddaughter is on an academic scholarship at Mount Olive University in North Carolina.&nbsp; My son graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina and he has 4 daughters. His oldest daughter graduated from Brigham Young University and got married after she and her husband graduated.&nbsp; She went to college on an academic scholarship His number 2 recently graduated from BYU. His 3 oldest served a 2-year mission for our church.&nbsp; Many people think that doing missionary work is a waste of time.&nbsp; Aside from the theology of missionary work, it taught my granddaughters how to read, study, and work.</p><p>Each summer, my children and grandchildren would come to visit for a week or 2.&nbsp; I tried and tried to get them interested in my coin collection.&nbsp; Only 1 of my grandchildren got interested.&nbsp; Luckily, my youngest has started on her coin collection.&nbsp; I gave her a lot of my &quot;extra&quot; coins to begin with and a 2 year old Red Book.&nbsp; She loves to go over her collection by email and Facebook.&nbsp; She loves to show me her latest addition.&nbsp; Another granddaughter is a musician and she sings very well.&nbsp; I gave her my guitar that I bought in Brazil in 1966 when I was a missionary for our church.&nbsp; I also gave her a song book of the Beatles, the Association, and Peter, Paul and Mary.&nbsp; She now plays and signs better than I do.&nbsp; We have gotten very close because of her music and her coin collection.</p><p>My recommendation to we parents and grandparents, is to find something that you can get close to your children and grandchildren.&nbsp; It&#039;s amazing how close you can get with a coin collection and/or music.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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