Hello. Well we made it through a week of grandbabies. We spent 6 days with them. Our grandson is 3 and our granddaughter is 1. This was different than when our children were that age. Our lives were so different then. My work schedule was more intense. We didn't work together like we do now. We had people at our house all the time back then. I probably spent more time with the grandbabies than I generally did with our children at that age. This did bring back good memories. Five or six days was cool, however, I wouldn't want to be raising two young children in today's world.

I take my hat off to people raising children today. It seems that as things advance in our society, there are more problems children are faced with. Technology creeps into their innocent lives stealing their childhood. Most youngsters today will never know what it's like to play a pick-up game of baseball or just sit in the sand box with a shovel and your favorite toy truck for hours. They'll never experience the joy of walking uptown with a pocket full of quarters to go to the Saturday matinee. It was those endless hours of independence and camaraderie that built the character in children for decades.

How can they learn the valuable lessons of life sitting in a dark room, alone, staring at a computer screen? Oh, they'll make good data entry people...or worse, a lone gunman on a college campus. Thank God, our grandbabies love to be outside. Even though it's demanding on the parents and others, it's worth it. I hope they never get hooked on the television or computer. The computer is evil...and that's a whole other blog.

Peace