With the recent events the transpired in Boston I decided to watch the local news for a change. I wanted to get live coverage of the tragedy that had happened, because as I had mentioned in one of my earlier posts that news sources varied online . Now I know that they are still looking for answers as to what happened , why, and who. So I can totally understand the reason for the confusion of the details . And I also certainly understand not disclosing all of the details ,because of ongoing investigations. Plus the fear of copycats acts would happen else where. Now my daughter was also watching and was really having a difficult time understanding why some one would or even could do something like this. It is even harder as a parent to explain when at this point no really knows a real motive as of yet. Also this presented an opportunity to educate my daughter on some of the evils out in the world. As Americans we live our lives with our eyes half open. We don't want to believe the evil is out there until it hits home. Now you can ask anyone that knows me , anytime I take my daughter any where I hardly ever let her out of my sight. Am I an over protective parent? maybe , maybe not. We have to look at the world with our eyes wide open. Be aware that our world and our country have evil people in it. The question is why do people do these terribly acts of terror against other people. That is what I was asked last night, talk about tough questuion to answer. That fact is people around the world hate the US as a country. Some because of how we live, some of what we have done. In general some people hate other just because they can or it could be they way they were raised. Who knows why, it just happens that way. Our children need to be taught that our country isn't as safe as we would like it to be. Also people can be evil ,so trust must be earned not given..Now understand its not easy to have your children watch such acts of terrible scenes off terror. But by denying them of these experiences we are allowing them to enter the world with a false sense of security. As a parent I feel obligated to prepare my daughter for what may lay ahead. That includes all the good as well as the bad. This is a very difficult task accomplish when you never know what the future has in store for our children. I wish I didn't have to include this in to my parenting , but predators are everywhere. My heart goes out to all the tragedies that are happening all around the world. It use to only be we would do drills in school for fires or bad weather, now we have to include for a shooter situation. There will always be people who resent us for what we have,what we believe in, and who we worship. I don't have all the answers , I also don't believe our government has them either. Although they may have good intentions , there methods and solutions leave many doubts to are they doing more harm than good.. I think that it is up to me to as a parent to educate my daughter in certain subjects the way I believe. When the time comes that she is mature enough to understand all situations to make her own decisions in life. May the Good Lord above be with us all as parents and as a country as we set forward on this amazing and scary journey ahead o us I think thats good for now.
.God Bless all my friends and family
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