Well this will be my first post. I find it hard to write about nothing, and I dont really do much except take care of kids anymore. Over a lifetime of living, its funny how it comes full circle, when my kids where younger, I didnt work unless I had to, then I started working when they got older. Mainly out of boredom. Now I now longer work for health reasons, so I take care of kids again, grand kids and foster kids. It seems I was so busy running around somewhere in all the chaos something happened, I think its called life.

I sometimes think I should write a book, the trouble I've seen or have helped people get through. When did we as a society loose control of our morals, our kids, and ourselves. We're so busy thinking the worse about everyone, its seems that people will believe anything about someone else so long as it's "bad" or "good gossip".

What is considered abuse now, was a good back hand for back talking when I was a kid. But it seems people dont know when or where to draw the line. Whether its the back hander or the back handie. When did we start to loose control of the situation? I think it was when we told parents they never had control to begin with, kids now have the upper hand, and in some cases I do mean upper hand. They now have control, so who has control of them? Obviously no one.

Kids go around making false accusations against adults, and they can, all they need is a preponderance of evidence to convict. In other words a child's word against that of an adult, whether innocent or not, and their lives are ruined forever. Both lives, because the child has no idea what their independence is going to cost them. Pregnant teens, run a ways, low self esteem. And why? I dont know, from what I've seen, more harm than good. Under qualified state workers removing kids from their homes, placing them in foster care, or with their other parent just so little Johnny can stay out late because he "just wants to live his own life" or little Suzie having sex at the age of 14 at her Mom or Dads house after being removed because she "is old enough to make her own decisions". And then being pregnant by little Johnny 3 months later. And round and round we go.

Welcome to life, how sad. For close to 20 years I've worked with kids, either on probation or in foster care, and things are getting harder for kids, not better.

Well enough of being preachy, I have to check on our foster baby and take my night meds and then its bed time. So until next time, one of my favorite quotes:

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
Winnie the Pooh

also one of my favoite "people" to quote.