![]() ![]() I know I’ve also read comments from people saying that even though they’ve tried helping people aren’t always willing to get that help so it’s easier for them to call the cops. However, not everyone has the luxury of logistics or a husband to help. ![]() If I can’t get something I will call my husband to help. I’ve always been a planner and figure out the best strategy in situations that involve my kids because well having 4 kids is a game of logistics. It’s just something I’ve always grown accustomed to doing. I always take them with me to pay even when one may be asleep. I always carry all 4 of them in to the store when I need something. Thankfully, I’ve never been in a situation where I’ve needed to leave the kids in the car. ![]() As a parent it doesn’t matter if you have 1 or 100 kids there will always be that moment of frustration, that moment of anxiety, that moment where you really just need help. What’s most disheartening is the judgment I see on pages when articles get brought up from people making asinine comments like “If you can’t take care of your kids than don’t have them”, or “If you’re overwhelmed than you shouldn’t have them”. However, why are people so ready to call the cops in a situation and not ready to help? However, when did we become a society of tattletales? Not ready to truly help but to feel so self important we need to be reactive instead of proactive? I know there are cases one can truly react, especially when it comes to babies being left in cars or children being abducted in cars. I get it, because of the news and because of all the accessibility to whats going on around us,it’s very easy to walk around fearful of what might happen if we stop watching our children for even one second. Why, because I know there’s always someone watching and waiting to be a hero, even when their help is not needed. ![]() Although I have 4 kids ages 8 and younger, all with different levels of confidence, I wouldn’t have them do something like that, even though I know how capable they are of doing it. Even in a day and age when the reality of little Adam Walsh’s kidnapping was a very big reality(We use to frequent Hollywood Mall where he was kidnapped). I was an only child and was always over protected by many standards but my mother had no issues allowing me to complete small tasks. Something that chances are most of our parents did on a daily basis without thinking twice. It seems every time you turn on the news or jump on social media you hear a story about a parent doing something that got them in trouble with the police. Flash forward 30 years, Can you imagine a parent in this day an age allowing their children to do such a thing? Sadly no, because the outcome would probably involve a “good Samaritan” calling the police and the parent getting arrested. So it became a custom that I would walk in get the bread and pay for it. I knew how to count my money,pick out the bread for dinner and take it to the cashier. I use to beg for her to let me go in and do it. It was a small store, you could literally see the back of the store from the front. I still remember being around 6 years old ,the year 1986, and I was a self assured little strong minded girl, being sent into the store to buy some Cuban bread for my mom. ![]()
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