Loving Kids

So I love my jobs...I love all of them! Especially since a lot of them involve kids or working with or watching kids...or kids are nearby. Kids are so great...for anyone! Just being around them you get to feel younger and more energetic and just alive! Okay...that's some of the time. A lot of other times you feel like you're so old you're about to die and incredibly deaf from the cries and screams and about to go bald from pulling out your hair. But no! Really...kids are great. You could have a kid who screams for 48 hours straight and you could be crying from frustration but then...but then....he stops and just snuggles up and those 48 hours of torture are completely forgotten.

Kids really are so innocent...but SO smart too. My mum told me just today, "We were told that we were not raising children or even babies...but we were raising adults". And that couldn't be more true. Lately one thing that has bugged me is watching how parents treat their kids. They treat them like they are still babies...they treat 3 year olds like a 2 month old and you just can't do that! Your child is so incredibly smart...whether you see it or not. From a very early age they begin to test and try you...pushing to see limits...observing how you treat them when they act a certain way. And they know that if they act like a little child (screaming, crying, tantrums) that you will give them the favors of a little child. This doesn't push the child to the stages that he or she should be at. They are not their full potential!

Another thing...doctors are out to make money. At the end of the day that's what it comes down to...follow the money. If they don't diagnose you with something and give you medication for it...then that is a doctor's time gone to waste where he doesn't get paid what he could be making. That is why now you have 1 in 10 kids getting diagnosed with autism and 1 in 3 kids who are diagnosed with ADHD...this gives the doctor a reason to prescribe medication...which means more money.

But I've seen these kids...and granted, I'm no doctor...but these are kids who are just as normal as the next child. And once these kids are diagnosed with something the whole way that their parents treat them is completely different! If you have one child who has "ADHD" and their sibling is just a regular kids...say they both scream for...say, a snack or a toy. The kid who has "special needs" is gonna get it because their parents spoil them and love them to death. Not to say that they don't love their other child...but for the other child the parent has certain rules and those rules are to be followed. But for the "special" child the parent has no rules because the parent doesn't think the child will understand...or something! Who knows for sure.

Anyways...maybe that was a senseless rant...you can completely ignore it...I'm no parent, but I have had about 3 years of consistent babysitting under my belt...and several jobs now that involve kids, so I wouldn't say I'm totally dumb when it comes to kids. Anyhoo...have a super awesome night and may God bless you!!