Thursday, January 24, 2008

I am turning into a FREAK!!

So, do you ever watch regular TV and your mind starts going crazy? I'm not sure I can watch Law & Order SVU when it involves kids anymore. It freaks me out. Last time I watched it I turned on the parent locks on our TV and thought that Madonna's idea of not letting her children watch TV is a good idea, or maybe it is better that they play video games than watch TV. I don't know - and then to top it off - I am a part of a Service Group in Pocatello called Leadership Pocatello. Mostly what we do is go around to businesses in Pocatello and learn about the history and such. It is pretty interesting, in December we had a Service Day and went to the Food Bank and helped out and we are having a fund raiser in April. Anyway, for January it was Law & Order day. So, we got to go to the Women's Prison (it stunk, and it was a little freaky being around those people - they were locked in their rooms when we went through. Still, knowing they were there . . . . ) Most of the women there were in for Drug related charges, I guess there is quite a bit of meth in Pocatello - who knew?? I would think a deterrant of the drug is that it makes you ugly, like, physically ugly. That right there is enough for me to never do it. Whatever - to each their own. Then we were off to the Juvenile Detention Center. That freaked me out worse than the Women's Prison. The youngest kid they had ever had in there was 8! Brayden is 8! How . . . . ? What . . . . .? Who . . . . . . ? I guess most of the kids are in there because of alcohol or breaking probation. It made me sad. I tell you what, the first time Jade or Bray get in a bit of trouble, I am taking them for a little tour of the facility so they can see what happens. They wake up at 6am, school from 8-3, then study or homework, and bedtime is at 8 or 9 and they are locked in their rooms.
So, maybe I should not watch TV or leave my house EVER, because I now want to move to the mountains and shelter the children from outside evils.
What do you do? You can't shelter them from everything and you can't watch their every move and hear everything they say. They are good kids and I trust them, it is the other kids I don't trust, it is the wrong place and the wrong time I don't trust. Something bad could happen just being at the mall or even school!! My sister-in-law (soon-to-be) worked at a Juvi for sexual offenders - that would suck so bad!! I would cry every day!! How sad. Anyway, that is my rambling for the day. Any advice would be appreciated.

2 comments:

Michelle and Adrian Murray said...

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jrench said...

A sexy Freak!!! Yeah!!