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Dear Ann Landers,
am incensed by the advice you gave the young widow with the nine-year-old son. She said the boy was full of conversation at the dinner table and her father-in- law made the boy be quiet because he didn't approve of talk-ing at the table. You said kids should talk at the table and suggested that the mother and son eat first and let the old man eat by himself if he wants silence. The trouble with kids today is they are all mouth. They run everything and everybody. They tell adults where to head in. They hit teachers and have no respect for authority. If a grandfather wants to discipline a boy by saying, "Shut up and eat-that's what you're at the table for," he should do it.-Old-Fashioned Father

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, whatever they needed I provided. What really hurt my son and I the most was the obituary - we were not mentioned at all. Our friends (mine and hers) were appalled. I was embarrassed and upset for not just me, but for my son-who loved her also. I never been so upset. Her x-husband put his wife and kids and their grandchildren in the obituary, who my girlfriend barely knew. They live an hour away from us. I know its silly to be mad over a little section of the newspaper, but it still hurts. Will time let this devastating loss of her and this article ever go away? I am so angry at this whole situation, its not like we can go and rewrite an obituary notice.

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