Posted On: Wednesday, July 12, 2017
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My Beginnings—people say that your birth order and your family of origin make a huge difference in how you grow up and relate to the world. So let’s see if that is true.
I was born in NYC, the second daughter to a second generation of Jewish immigrants from Russia.
My parents had grown up in the city, my mother, Martha, the daughter of a variety storeowner, and my father, Victor, the son of a barber. When I came along, my father had done his time in the Army/Air Corps during the War II and had settled into a sales position at Remington Rand. My mom had learned drafting, done a little modeling, and was content to raise her long-awaited family.
My dad’s job promotion to Sales Manager brought us to Massachusetts when I was 3 years old—to an apartment in Brookline Village. I loved it there—a wonderful courtyard of varied activities and friends to enjoy them with. Roller skating, tricycling, playing ball, were all available by just opening your front door.
“I want to go, too,” was my demand when I found out that my sister was going to school. How could she leave me behind? Sitting in our dimly lit apartment, watching my mother iron, I was overwhelmed with despair that I would be left behind to such a unstimulating fate.
Fortunately, my pleading was heard, and I was whisked away to the brick building down the street, where I was told that I would be taking a test to see if I could qualify for school. After the initial freakout when my mother tried to leave me with this old, rather unattractive woman—I was given a young teacher with a basket full of household items.
Would we be cooking? I hoped, but she just wanted to know if I knew what they were—spatula, egg beater, rolling pin—come on—give me something challenging. They never did—so at 4 years old, I became one of their youngest students attending Kindergarten. That was my first taste of living a life of my dreams and the realization of Dream Creation Principle #1. Ask for what you want.