My grandmother died of Alzheimer's, and my mother is slowly descending into it. I'm afraid I'm looking at my future. Thank you for publishing a little bit of hope.
On the story about the parents charged with a felony for letting their child walk to the store with his older brother….did I miss something? They charged the parents but not the driver that actually killed the boy? I hope it’s not because the parents are a mixed race couple and the driver was white(an assumption on my part). So on one hand people scream and holler about how children spend all their time indoors on their phones yet when a parent lets their child go out with their older sibling and the parent supervising on the phone they get charged with a felony? Perhaps the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard in quite some time. And haven’t the parents been punished enough? Do you think they’ll ever forgive themselves? And then to ruin their reputation and financial situation…just wrong.
Re: A Crossing to Bear. I realized children were being more closely watched over than they were in my childhood, but I didn't realize it was to this extent. I wonder what my mother would have been put through when at the age of 15, I was allowed to work at a resort town approximately 400 miles from home. Granted, it was a different kind of resort, Chautauqua Institution. It had a symphony orchestra that gave three concerts a week, an opera and play house that held a different opera and play each week. I lived in a dorm with other "men" working there; the women were housed at the other end of the hall. I worked there for the next three summers and then for several summers after graduating college. I'm sure I learned a few lessons I wouldn't have learned had I remained at home during those summers, but I consider myself better off for the experience(s)
My grandmother died of Alzheimer's, and my mother is slowly descending into it. I'm afraid I'm looking at my future. Thank you for publishing a little bit of hope.
This sign needs to go in the front yard of the White House.
On the story about the parents charged with a felony for letting their child walk to the store with his older brother….did I miss something? They charged the parents but not the driver that actually killed the boy? I hope it’s not because the parents are a mixed race couple and the driver was white(an assumption on my part). So on one hand people scream and holler about how children spend all their time indoors on their phones yet when a parent lets their child go out with their older sibling and the parent supervising on the phone they get charged with a felony? Perhaps the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard in quite some time. And haven’t the parents been punished enough? Do you think they’ll ever forgive themselves? And then to ruin their reputation and financial situation…just wrong.
Re: A Crossing to Bear. I realized children were being more closely watched over than they were in my childhood, but I didn't realize it was to this extent. I wonder what my mother would have been put through when at the age of 15, I was allowed to work at a resort town approximately 400 miles from home. Granted, it was a different kind of resort, Chautauqua Institution. It had a symphony orchestra that gave three concerts a week, an opera and play house that held a different opera and play each week. I lived in a dorm with other "men" working there; the women were housed at the other end of the hall. I worked there for the next three summers and then for several summers after graduating college. I'm sure I learned a few lessons I wouldn't have learned had I remained at home during those summers, but I consider myself better off for the experience(s)