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Howard D. Glockzin

Story of my life growing up in northern Minnesota. We moved fourteen times while I went to school from K-12 all eighteen years. Sometimes multiple moves in the same town, but largely moving from small town to small town. We moved because my parents wanted to. They loved small town Minnesota up north, and they were not content with just visiting. If I questioned why, or said no to a move, I got a beating. The teachers hate dealing with kids from that lifestyle, because they don't know if the kid is ahead, or behind, the learning curve for the class. It's a headache, and I totally get it. Teachers call frequent movers, like us, "wanderers." Studies have been done, and they have shown that kids from these families are not as successful as other people. A lack of stability during childhood causes anxiety and apathy, which is an uncaring attitude. "We're moving again anyway, so what does what I think even matter?" It pissed me off, and I joined the military, once I graduated. That was one part of my life I never really looked back on. Kids need stability and strong social connections growing up. I had one friend who also came from a frequently moving family because as the father would say: "That's how we lived in the Army!" Needless to say, that man was sent away to a mental institution in a strait jacket. Some people seriously should not have kids. I said this before on other sites, but if you choose a transient lifestyle, keep it to yourself, or marry a like minded person, then get a recreational vehicle to travel around in. If you have kids, maybe get prepared to study becoming a licensed teacher to home school your kids. Abuse comes in many different forms, and neglecting kids through selfishness, like this, is just one nasty form.