October 21, 2007

  • Breaking News: Your killing your kid

    Edit:  Who says all young people are about "Yo wasup comments plz"  Or whatever thay say.  I have found a couple teens who are very articulate and bright.  Here's one of them

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    Everyday at work we have the news.  I tape it and bring it in for the boys.  Actually, it's not real news, it's news, but it's not.  It's on CNN, but it's not. 
    Let me explain.  I replaced another TA at work and was asked by the teacher to tape the news before I came into work and then play it for the boys.  I said, "sure, any particular news?" and he said " yes CNN"  No problem.

     So I taped it and the boys were mad. Really mad like "WTF" mad.   I was told this is not the news, and where was Robin?  I had no idea what they were talking about.  Who was Robin and why do they keep saying this isn't news when it clearly was?  I found out later the other TA taped HN ( Headline News) with Robin who is considered hot.  HN is CNN, but not really.  Anyway here is a picture of Robin




    It's the only way we can get the boys to watch the "news."  I have nothing against Robin, but it really is a watered down version of news if you ask me. 

    So everyday we watch the news and almost everyday they add more toys to the list of toys that have lead and need to go.  And they have the big news about not giving your kid under twelve or something any baby Tylonol and a host of other common meds. This doesn't directly effect me except I have young nieces and nephews.  But It sure makes me glad my kids are 18 and 20.  I feel so sorry for parents with really young kids.  Jennie practically lived on baby Tylonol.  I was a first time parent.  I thought every cry from three months on meant she was teething.  The kid was addicted to the stuff.  Watered down news or not, it's still scary.

    This got me thinking, what if this news had come out back then?  After I had already given her massive doses?  And what about the toys?  I would have probably taken everything and thrown it out, just to be on the safe side.  I would have been a basket case.  Especially with the first kid. As it was, I had to stop reading the books, that contradicted each other anyway, and go with my own instincts for the most part.  And they didn't have half the dangers they do now. 

    Like I said in my prior entry, I am not the paranoid type, except when it comes to my kids. 

    So are young parents freaking out now?  It seems everything is going to kill your kids.  And their future, well according to " experts" that sure looks bleak too.  Since they're going to have deadly diseases and drown anyway ( Global warming) , why not just let them play with the lead toys?  At least they'll have happiness before the end. 

    Talk about anxiety.  I'm not disputing that these things are not true and many things are probably  harmful, but my goodness the media sure scares the crap out of people.

    That's why I rarely watch the news.  Except now I have to.  I have to pay attention too because the teacher and I write ten questions to make sure the boys were listening and not just drooling over Robin.

    The boys don't seem concerned even though many of them are fathers ( please, that's another blog in itself.)  But then again they are not the caretakers of their children and probably worry more about their kids being shot.

    I have written about this before, but things are getting worse.  We should just put our kids in bubbles.  I would probably be scared to have a child now.  It's a good thing I can't and don't want to.

    Do kids even have fun anymore?  They don't go outside, they can't just take off and go to a friend's ( you have to have a date), they can't play with toys, and they can't have medication ( unless it's an antidepressant or ADHD meds), airports and flying are no longer fun, and they need to study for their ACT /SAT's at three. Frankly, I don't know how civilization has survived this long.

    It must suck to be a kid now.  No wonder they all have to be medicated.  No wonder all the parents have to be medicated. 

    It's a scary world out there.

    As a side note, but related to the topic, if I see one more picture of that three year old, who was raped by that pig, I'm going to get physically sick.

    I think I should  ask the teacher if I can tape my soap operas instead.  So much better than real life. And lot's of hot Robins for the boys.

    But then I would miss things like the gay Dumbledore thing. Or Brittany and Lindsay news.  And that could be disappointing. 

    Such a dilemma.

Comments (44)

  • I don't think I would have survived if they had banned the cold medications when my kids were little. I think this whole backlash is politically correct BS designed to make parents feel bad.  There is nothing worse than a 2 year old with a stuffy nose who won't or can't sleep.  It's going to end up biting them in the ass because now parents might resort to trying to figure out a dose of the adult meds. 

  • http://www.nakednews.com/

    Your class might like this even better.  Boys will be boys.....

  • I'm sure that Robin would appreciate how much she is helping the troubled youth of our era by being hot enough to get them to watch the news, haha.

  • I'm a TA also! I hate it, the boys are all jerks who don't care about anything except attempting to intimidate the teacher into passing them. What a joke!

    Anyway, I am a parent of a 15 month old daughter and I'm absolutely disgusted that they've done this with medicines. I think the newest demand is that kids under 10 not get any kind of cold medicine because it "doesn't work." If it doesn't work, I ask why so many were sold over the years? It must work. In fact, I know it works. When my daughter has a cold and can't sleep because she's drowning in snot, I know the infant tylenol cough and cold is going to dry her out a bit. Imbeciles, if you ask me. They obviously don't have children, or don't have anything better to do that try and scare new young parents, just like you said.

    I think this "epidemic" of children dying from medication overdose comes from moronic parents who give their kids the bottle to drink. Believe it or not, there are responsible parents out there who check with doctors, read the instructions on the bottle and follow them to the letter. I should know, I'm one of them!

    But alas, I must now let my child suffer when she gets a cold. Love and time, that's how the "experts" are telling us to take care of our kids now.

    Don't even get me started on the lead toys! In fact, I think I just need to go write this all down and post it on my own blog! Thanks!

  • I'll blame it on the media.  They take one story of something bad happening because of something EVERYBODY does and turn it into a circus.  Then they have headlines for weeks on end: "China toy recall!" "Are your children safe?" "How to avoid Chinese toys" "Why you should never buy toys for your children", and "Lead Paint: why you need to freak out for the next 6 months", nevermind all the kids that grew up in houses painted with lead paint, whose toys were lead figures painted with lead paint, who turned out normal. 

    Also, I have been advised to never read any baby books because it will only stress me out.  

  • Guess where I was last night?  The ER, with my 18 year old son, who was diagnosed last night with pneumonia.  They gave him a heavy shot of antibiotic, two Zithromax, and RX for more of same.  I asked about giving him decongestant, even Mucinex, which contains guiafenisin, an expectorant (to thin everything out) and they said NO - no cold meds, no decongestants (BUT THEY WANT HIS MUCUS TO THIN AND COME OUT!) but lots of water, fluids, etc....and tylenol or motrin for fever, BUT NOTHING ELSE.

    All those years of Dimetapp and tylenol cold.....now they say it's poison.  I'm starting to wonder now if the drug companies were throwing that stuff at us parents, making us believe it would help, giving us something we believed was a "quick fix" to make our kids "feel better" so that they could make money.  Our doctor told me once, a long time ago, that most of that stuff does no good, some of it can "temporarily" make the kid feel a little better, but some of it "dries them up" so much that the infection doesn't get out, just sits there and grows worse...that these meds do nothing to heal or shorten the duration of the illness....and that fluids and soup and steam are better than all of that.  He may have been on to something.

    I'm making soup today.  I may have him use my daughter's nebulizer, with saline solution only, just to "thin his mucus," since I can 't give him medicine for that.

  • My daughter had a chronic cough from age 2-4 and lived on cough syrup. Now they're saying its ineffective and/or dangerous to give it to small kids. It seems like everything nowadays is dangerous, but our kids survived okay. I think there are legitimate concerns on some of this stuff, but it has become the thing to hype it and scare the public.

  • ~Chuckling~  No, CNN is not the real news, almost every version is watered-down, no thanks to Bush.  I hope that bitch you wrote about DOES get fired!  It's Sunday--time to crack up and laugh.

  • I just think it's overkill about the decongestants.

  • Lol at your dilema. (& yet not)

    I don't get really scared anymore, I just mainly get scared about child molestors or car wrecks, murderers, ect. (I have a little brother & though I call him "that kid" sometimes I am VERY protective of him)

    I guess I'm just used to all this crap now.

  • Oh, & btw, in reference to your last blog- it appears that my dad got YOUR wish, but certainly not his since he's a work-a-holic & has missed a whole week of work, he seems to have MRSA.
    So maybe I could steal the core from the doctor once he has cultured it & mail it to you.

    Not really- that's disgusting. ;P Ew.

  • Whatever happened to Colorforms is all I can say?

  • I have the same thoughts frequently, and I'm 16. So I can't imagine how bad it actually is to be a mother these days, and even worse to be a child. I feel lucky because I avoided this whole yuppie-parent thing by about 6 years. The kids now days can't go outside because they'll be kidnapped or raped or killed, and they can't eat candy because they'll get obese, and they can't have medicine when they have a tummy ache because they'll get poisoned, and they can't play with toys because they will choke on small parts, and they can't play dodgeball because they might get hit with a ball, and they can't play with water pistols because it condones violence, and they can't climb trees because they might fall, and they can't eat peanut butter because they might be allergic, and they can't HAVE FUN! The only thing left is indoor video games, in front of a nice, safe television. But then the parents freak over the video games because it might be violent or might make their kid fat or have a seizure- there is no way to be a kid and win these days.

    I spent my entire childhood running around, outside, playing dodgeball, eating peanut butter, and randomly showing up at my friend's houses. I'm still alive!

  • Who knew teenaged thug boys were attracted to grown women with perma-pressed hair and business suits?

  • You can buy colorforms on Back to Basics toys, I think.

    My mom is visiting, and she said she'd never give a kid cold medicine. WTF? She was really smug about the story. I told her she never did it because the doctors then gave an antibiotic every five minutes, which they don't do anymore.

    My kids lived on a combo of Motrin and Pediacare. I think, at the doctor's urging...

  • Haha, of course I was kidding. =P
    I know my class hated it, and our teacher didn't even think the movie was worth watching. It was overall sucky.
    "The Giver" is an amazing book. Lois Lowry if I'm not mistaken; her other work, "Number the Stars" was amazing as well. I just didn't remember those when I was writing my list, though I'm hoping to make a top 100 list. I just had the first 10 on there...

    Thank you =] Frankly, I like to think I make the other kids look retarded, even if that is incredibly narcissistic of me. I really don't like teenagers, unless they're smart teenagers. But teenagers on the whole are too into themselves and their Abercrombie clothes and their THUGLYFE rap crap.

    I'm glad your kids were raised the good way. They were lucky. I do concur that we need a swing back to normalcy. I've never envisioned myself having children, but if I do, I will be sure to raise them free as I was. Maybe I got lucky because my mum raised my brother before me (He was 21 when I was born, so she'd done everything with him already.) Another thing that really pisses me off about parents these days the is obesity paranoia. We have 5 year olds counting carbs. COME ON. You really don't need to stress your children over their weight when they're that young- it's the parents' responsibility to ensure the children are eating healthy meals. I personally believe that it may lead to eating disorders- but this health hype of 5 year olds hasn't been around long enough to see. I say, let them learn about it when they need to. (AND BOYCOTT SUBWAY! But that's another story for another day.) I've heard that Sesame Street has strayed from teaching children how to spell with Bert and Ernie and moved towards eating salads. Because it's more important to eat a salad than to spell and read correctly. Oh dear, I'm off on a tangent again. I'll stop. Eventually.
    Speaking of Bert and Ernie, I'm surprised no one has gotten them evicted from Sesame Street yet. God forbid our children be exposed to the slightest small hint of gayity- which you really need to be an adult to pick up on it anyway.
    -end tangent-

    Thanks for commenting back to me =]
    Have a pleasant day.

  • I was thinking about it. I probably will tonight, at present I'm working an English essay. I'll let you know, and thanks for linking me =]

  • Oh, and I'll link you as well. If you want.

  • I just gave Layna Tylenol last night.  I figured my kid survived a few doses, this one will, too.  LOL

  • RYC: not to worry, no serious consideration is happening.  The place is across the country, and the kid's only 10!

  • I did not read all of the comments....but....I am a mom of young kids. And, honestly, I mostly just ignore a lot of stuff on TV. But the medicine thing (Not that you probably care) is just "infant decongestant" medicine, which my pediatrician said has not been shown to even help young children....so why bother having it on the market. Basic children's/infants Tylenol (for teething, fevers, etc) is totally fine. And the actual problem for the decongestants is that it says "see doctor if under 2", so parents are self-diagnosing and giving too much. Sorry for the long explanation. But my theory: do what I can (I am pretty protective of my children), trust God with the rest, and dont watch the news. I always try to remind myself that children have survived up to this point (my mom says that when I was a kid, some medicines for kids had alcohol in them and I lived).

  • I think it is all propagenda.  Really.They all has motives behind them.

  • A bunch of baloney......I don't worry too much about what I read anymore....I just go with the flow.

  • This is exactly why i dn't watch the news... a kid being raped by a pig?????? This is why... I don't want to know thas even possible. You sicko.

    And gay dumbledore???? WRONG.

  • Robin Meade is almost too pretty to be legal. But then again if we all had the luxury of someone to do our hair and make up professionally every day and dress us up in thousand dollar suits, we would all be knockouts too.

  • Normal news is boring. Bring on the weird, disturbing things anytime!

  • It's all about lawsuits these days!! 

  • I blogged about this and linked to you. =]

  • I long to look like Robin no matter what job they assign me ... My kids were drugged and they are fine ...

  • I was thinking the same thing this weekend - that I would hate to have little kids these days. Course, my mom said the same thing when my girls were little, with all the baby proofing and the special things to keep their heads from getting wedged between the bars, and special laundry soap and this and that. Evidently I was at risk every day as a baby - feed regular people food and had my laundry done with cheer and bleach for goodness sakes. Not covers on the outlets or locks on the cupboards or special handles on the doors. It's a miracle I survived. It's a miracle my girls survived.

  • I went to Jackk's site and was impressed!  Some people's kids are actually ok-lol.  Wiccans are cool!!

  • Thank you!! ^_^

  • Also, I was watching CNN/MSNBC this morning and saw that anti-bacterial products make germs more resistant (which alot of people already know, it's why doctors don't prescribe antibiotics for every little sneeze.) and I thought of this post. And of how many parents will stop cleaning with anti bacterials now.
    I also saw a report on teacher sexual abuse, which led me to ponder how many kids will be put into home school.
    sigh.

  • This is why I love rural Iowa.  My kids are free to run around our yard as much as they like.  We live on 5 acres in the country.  We also live outside a small town with old fashioned values where everyone knows everyone and looks out for each other.  We still have that and I love it.  The only crime we have is an occasional spray paint somewhere.  I think the news can be a good thing but too much of a good thing is also bad.  I still give my girls Tylenol and meds and I haven’t freaked out and searched their toy boxes because I think there is a point where you have to just go with the flow.  There is no point in driving yourself crazy with worry and anxiety over every little thing.

  • I do have little kids in the house & find myself checking those stupid recalled toy lists OFTEN!! I also have older kids that lived thru the dangerous toys...lead was around like crazy when I was a kid!

    How is the computer problem coming along?

  • I didn't realize what your job was until your last post. I thought you worked at a grocery store (Safeway, right?).  Anyway, it sounds very interesting, if a little mentally scary. 

    As a young parent I have managed to not be too terribly paranoid b/c I never watch the news. And I don't buy any new toys, really.  We'll be in trouble if books turn out to have lead paint, though...  I figure things have always been pretty screwed up and on a continuum of the last several thousand years it's hard to imagine things are any worse... Of course, there is the whole impending environmental disaster to deal with - have you heard of the cities running out of water? That gives me the heebie jeebies! Luckily I am married to a man that keeps us supplied with bullet proof vests and emergency food rations. Ha!

  • My granddaughter is 11 months and I am constantly saying to my husband how scared I am of her growing up in today's world.  I want to keep her locked up and safe, but I know you can't.  I'm just glad that I have faith and believe God is in control.

  • i know ..we just cant think about that ..we HAve to see the good FOR our children and our sanity. I read the paper but I do not watch the news... I cant

  • If I got news the way your boys are getting it then maybe I might have become a journalist...

    Time to read Jennie's report again.....

  • Which is just another reason I don't watch the news anymore.

    Sometimes (the fires in SO.Cal. which are near me) I am forced to, but I watch what I need to and tune the rest out. I have to for my own sanity.

    My DD's all had seizures when they were little, caused by high temps. We had prescription motrin for them back before motrin for children even existed...not much tylenol around here, but I do remember using it. My DS still uses motrin...I thought it was all the over the counter multi-symptom cold meds they were having a fit over, now it's just plain tylenol as well huh?

    I'll have to ask my DD's friends that have babies what they think of all this. It's gotta be scary for them. I know I would have freaked!

  • " To have happiness before the end", sometimes we really need this way of thinking in order to survive amidst all the depressing news .

  • I try to avoid the news whenever possible.....I think the parenting books were all written by people who never had any kids...and what works great in the book.....SUCKS when you try it in real life!  Or maybe these people don't mind listening to their kid scream at the top of his/her lungs for hours on end because.....they NEED SOME TYLENOL for their earache!!!  Good grief!!!!

  • Hi Laura!  This is a great post and so very true.  I have to laugh everytime they recall a toy or a product such as cough drops, because they risk a possible choking hazard.  EVERYTHING can cause choking if you are stupid enough not to keep it out of your mouth or make sure it is eaten properly.  Why don't they ban carrots, or hot dogs, or ALL FOOD??  Geesh.  I'm also glad my kids are older .. I was a paranoid first-time mother.  I would have thrown everything away, too.  But, I'm sure my kids' toys were full of lead and I gave them Tylenol, too.  They survived and are not brain-damaged!!  I think people tend to go overboard ... and it's only to cover their asses.

    Hope you are having a great weekend! Alicia

  • Laura, I feel like I haven't been by here lately, but I think Xanga always drops you off my list and I am continually re-subbing.  I actually saw you in the photos section, lol, but not on the sub list!

    I agree that everything these days seems to cause something.  They really get you, though, because what if you decide, "Enough is enough" with all these things they say can harm kids - and then, sure enough, the thing you chose to ignore really DOES turn out to be a danger.  It's hard to just dismiss that stuff, when it comes to kids.

    I've never heard of Robin until tonight, lol. 

    Kathi

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