I watch the news these days and I can’t help but ask myself…How in the hell did I survive childhood???    They have all these fancy new gadgets out now that mothers just can not raise their children without.    Geez, my mom  used to shove me out the door in the morning to play with the neighbor kids and didn’t give a second thought to looking out back while we made and ate mud pies.   She didn’t have baby monitors, fancy wipes, fancy diapers, motion detectors, toilet locks, cabinet locks, etc but somehow I survived.

I happen to catch on the news this morning two women talking about keeping your child safe.   That accidents to children in the home happen more then we think.   So I stop to listen and this woman is on there talking about how her child fell out of a window and fell 30 feet.   They said the child was lucky because she fell out, hit the copper roof, then hit the ground landing on her diaper.   Her diaper, which means we’re talking a small child, what under 3 years old?    Not only was the mother at home but so was an au pair, so somebody tell me how this child pushed the screen out of the window and fell out of it with not just her mother in the house but a hired nanny.   Plus you have to ask yourself how did the child get up high enough?   They didn’t cover that part of it.  

This may really make young mothers out there mad, but I don’t care, somebody needs to say it.   If your going to have children then you need to be there to take care of them.   Give up the mighty career and be a mom.   I know a lot of  you are saying or thinking, but we can’t live on what my husband makes.   I’ve heard that line before (and I’ll be posting a rant on that shortly).    Just cut back (learn more when you read my “How did this happen post).

Also, look for my post on today’s teenagers.