Assignment

Since this blog is part of my school assignments I would like to talk about my recent paper. I am writing my paper on Teen Sexual Education: Preventions and Parenting Working Together. If you all have feed back on this subject it may help me to get a better paper. I have statistics to back up why abstinence is the best at that age. Even though we want them to be abstinence we still need to talk about STDs such as how you get them. Teens think if they just don't have intercourse they will be fine. I think the condoms send the wrong messages, giving them the ok to experiment but be safe. Parents need to be involved and not be scared to talk about sex. Would you like them to learn from TV or you?

This is just the ideas of the paper. I have the rough draft almost finished and need to make it bigger for the final.

Thanks for any ideas and input!

Mom said it best

I am sure many of us can recall these famous phrases that our mom's have said at one point in time:

Take your plate into the kitchen, please.
Take it downstairs when you go. Don't leave it there, take it upstairs.
Is that yours?
I'm talking to you.
Just a minute, please, can't you see I'm talking?
I said, don't interrupt.
Did you brush your teeth?
What are you doing out of bed?
Go back to bed.
You can't watch in the afternoon.
What do you mean there's nothing to do?
Go outside.
Read a book.
Turn it down.
Get off the phone.
Tell your friend you'll call her back. Right now!
Hello, no she's not home.
She's still not home.
She'll call you when she gets home.
Take a jacket. Take a sweater.
Take one anyway.
Someone left his shoes in front of the TV.
Get the toys out of the hall.
Get the toys out of the bathtub.
Get the toys off the stairs.
Do you realize that could kill someone?
Hurry up.
Hurry up. Everyone's waiting.
I'll count to ten and then we're going without you.
Did you go to the bathroom?
If you don't go, you're not going.
I mean it.
Why didn't you go before you left?
Can you hold it?
What's going on back there?
Stop it.
I said, stop it!
Stop it, or I'm taking you home right now.
That's it. We're going home.
Give me a kiss.
I need a hug.

Delia Ephron

I think my dad may have said a few more of these lines than my mom, but it does bring me back to my childhood. Fond memories of pulling hair, long car rides, and those steps that i had to walk up and down for leaving the lights on and next time I was going to have to pay the electrical bill! Before I knew it, I turned into my mom! Most of these I am now saying to my littles. I hope this flooded you with memories and you laughed, just as I did!

You may never know

Until you have become a single mother you may never know the battles that I go through. I weep that my poor children were forced into a life like this. That I had to be so selfish and give them this life! My children deserve so much more than what I can give them. If it wasn't for my strong mouth I would be married by now. Why don't I just give in and suffer with what is not the best for me but great for my girls. Don't they deserve a daddy that is good to them even if I don't feel completed? I struggle with knowing what I should do. I do not know yet how to set aside my own misery for the better of my children. A husband could mean we would not struggle so much with bills. We would have a family vacation. For once they would here the famous phrase "go ask your dad." My children have been robbed of a dad, a great life. Now I have to struggle to make up for it.

I was glad to run into a church friend today who told me that they don't miss not having a dad that I do so much for them and love them enough. I just wish I could feel that way on the inside. I wish I had a man that I could make joint decisions with rather than just what I want to do. My way might not always be the best.