My Musings

I don’t know about you, but personally I am fed up with this so called “war” in Iraq and Afghanistan. What is this even about anymore? It can’t be about WMD’s because they didn’t find any of those, Saddam has been caught and executed so it is not about him. So why are we keeping our men and women over there? Did you know there have been 100 of our men and women killed just in April?!? One month 100 dead, I cannot see the sense or the reason for this. This country needs a change, and it needs a change fast. When are we going to start worrying about Americans and America? When are we going to start fixing the problems here at home and not everywhere else in the world? We are all citizens of this great country and we all have a VOICE. We need to use it. If people can sit there and complain about saying the pledge, get prayer taken out of school, and try and change everything that this country was founded on, surely we can use our VOICE and stand up for ourselves, our families, and our COUNTRY. If we keep letting this go on we won’t have much of a country left to defend, and our brave men and women won’t really be fighting for much either.  It has gone from America land of the free home of the brave to America land of the free home of the spoiled.

Ironically this is something I had to clarify this week, I guess that is just one of the many things that can happen when you are a young mother, and you look even younger to boot. I got pregnant when I was 19 and had my daughter when I was 20, I had my second child at 24. When I was pregnant with my children I received some of the dirtiest looks and the nastiest comments from older women and even some men. I am now 26 and I still get this reaction when I am out with my children. I understand where they are coming from, thinking that it is not OK for anyone under the age of 18 to have children, but they have no idea how old I am, or my situation, or anything else about me for that matter. Just because I am young does not mean I do not love my children, it does not mean that my children are not given the best of everything that I can possibly give them, it does not mean that I am tramp that goes out every weekend looking for fun. Did you ever think that she was married and she wants to start her family? I am married to the father of my children and I love him and my children more than anything in this world.  I agree that not all people step up to their responsibilities, but don’t categorize every young mother into some slut that doesn’t know how to protect herself from pregnancy.

Everyday you see something new, two boys found frozen in a lake, a man makes his children ride in the trunk of a car, a man kills his family and then turns the gun on himself, children being molested and killed. What is wrong with these people?? Every-time I hear something on the news it makes me that more obsessed with keeping my own children safe. How do you hurt your own child, or any child for that matter? I mean how could you possibly look into that face, full of innocence and wonder and hurt them? How do your kids wander out of your house and two miles down the road and drown in a lake? What in the hell were YOU doing, where were YOU, the parent, the person who is responsible for the children’s whereabouts and well being? My children are barely out of my sight in my own home for very long before I am checking on them. I do not understand, if you were responsible enough to have intercourse, get pregnant, and give birth you have to be prepared to be responsible enough to know where and what your kids are doing 24/7. I mean, do you think that it is OK to takeyour 10-14 year old child to the mall, movies, or anywhere else for that matter, shove some money into their hand and say “ I will pick you up at 10.” ? Do you think it is the responsibility of the security guards, or personnel of the establishment to babysit your children for you, so that you can go do whatever it is you want for those 5 hours? When you have children your life is no longer your own, and its because of parents like this that just drop their kids off wherever, that we have problems like this. These parents convey that they don’t need to be in charge of what their kids do or where they are, they thought it was a good idea at the time to have kids but now it just takes up too much of thier time, lets just get rid of them for a couple hours. How well do you think these kids are going to grasp the meaning of parenting? They ultimately will follow the example that their parents have set for them. So now you are seeing the product of parents that don’t care, these are the parents that have no concept of birth control or safe sex, they get pregnant and then don’t want to deal with the responsibility, the kids pisses them off lets put them in the trunk, they won’t stop crying lets beat them until they do, too tired to watch them take a nap maybe they will go for a walk down to the lake and you won’t have to worry about it, your life is horrible and your wife wants a divorce and it taking the kids, so lets kill everyone and then yourself, your problems are solved. Maybe I am stupid because I cannot grasp the concept, or maybe my mom actually gave a shit and loved me and my sisters and now I am passing that love to my children. I am truly scared for my kids if this is the way the world is going. I truly hope that people will realise what they are doing because our kids are in danger and its the parents that seem to be the ones putting them there.