Out Of Kilter

My eyes have told me.  We just need to do it better.  Get our priorities stright.

We don't need astroturf for high school children.  We need a homeless shelter, a larger area for animals at risk.  New moms need to be home with their babies.  Sounds simple, doesn't it?

Canada offers paid maternity leave for six months.  That can be combined with the husband's six month leave offering a new mom one year to bond and raise her baby.  They also have medical care for everyone.  A proactive approach.  It saves both lives and ensures better health.

This is NOT political this IS about human, living things rights.  The right to live a healthy life.

I believe many years from now we will look back at what we have allowed.  Yes, allowed.  The silent ones who did nothing.  The multitude.  The masses.  This is crunch time.

My daughter started back to work yesterday.  She nurses her baby providing an optimal good start for her.  She is lucky because she can work out of her home until a day care center has a spot available for her baby.  She is lucky because her mother-in-law helps out one day a week.  The rest she relies on a 20 something young woman, who also brings her baby, just three weeks younger than my daughter's baby.  Sure, there is the concern the young mother will focus more on her own child.  That can be true even in a day care center.  People do have their preferences.

Couples also have to decide their priorities.  Things, lifestyle or raising their child themselves, if that is an option.

My eyes have told me.  Time to get our priorities straight! We are out of kilter.  Again.