Barbara Bova's blog
Grandparent's heartbreak second time around
Staying and active and involved grandparent after the child of your heart reaches the teen years is not without it's painful side. No natter how much you understand that it's perfectly natural for a teenager to want to hang out with his buddies instead of his old grandparents, it still hurts when it happens. Just that took place recently when my older grandson came for a visit and was supposed to stay for two weeks. Instead he decided that he'd rather go back home to his friends.
Romance is dead
Courting a lady love these days has gone the way of the finer senses. Today's male is more likely to be insensitive to making a woman feel special. Certainly the lyrics that blast out everywhere, even in department stores, have very little to do with love, only sex and more sex. What a shame we have become so crude and rude and unattractive. "Where is the love?"
zits says it all
The comic strip ZITS has brought up an important point when Zits, a fifteen-year-old asks his parents whether they have set up a trust fund for him. Are parents responsible for an adult child's livelihood? Isn't time we let our teenagers set up their own funds for their futures and work weekends to add earned money to provide for themselves as they become young adults? Why do our labor laws deny youngster who have entered their teens and are able to make babies but can't get a paying job?
