Small Business Boomers

Controversy has arisen concerning President Obama’s speech nationwide to school children on Tuesday, September 8. Much concern also has been expressed about the lesson plans and suggested classroom discussion and activities.
Is this event solely to encourage youngsters to take their education seriously? Or is there an underlying motive to indoctrinate America’s young people? There are strong feelings on either side and in the middle. Some people wonder why this speech wasn’t scheduled for evening, when parents could watch the program with their youngsters and discuss it with them. Why was it targeted for school children in classroom situations?
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In addition to being grandparents caring for grandchildren, boomers might be caring for parents, too.  Sometimes they’re the sandwiched generation, caught between generations…parents, children and grandchildren.
At one time I cared for aging parents, a mom and aunt (her sister) with Alzheimer’s, and an uncle who couldn’t get out and about too well.  They also lived at a distance.  Eventually, as most passed away, we moved my mom to our house and eventually to a nursing home.
Before Mother died, our daughter, her husband and two children shared a household with Jim and me.  So we were a mixture of generations caring …read more

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Upon close scrutiny, you’ll find within the Obamacare proposals government parenting and grandparenting.  Home visits by government/state agents are indicated, whereby representatives will be able to “advise” those involved in children’s care on how to raise them.  This is under the guise of “health care.”
What we all wonder…are these simply suggestions?  Or will those raising children be required to follow the state’s agents’ advice.  Will this advice ignore parents and grandparents’ moral, ethical, and religious view in favor of state approved ones? Often these conclusions about childcare are made by people who don’t have children and have never raised them.
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