My daughter has a four-year-old and baby twin boys. They live in the same village as I do, deep in rural Devon. As they live so near to me I get to see them lots. This impresses on me how important it is to play a part in their upbringing. Even more important is this for the parents and particularly the mother. I just want to say to all you Moms and Grandmas out there, never under estimate the value of what you can teach your little ones, passing on the important things about life that you have already learnt over many years. If you are fortunate enough to be able to spend time with the children and not go to work don't under value what you do. In Britain most children are out of the house very early to be dropped off at their child minder's and not picked up again until the early evening. By then they are tired and soon in bed, so what input can their parents give them. Today's parents feel they have to earn more to give their kids "a good life." But are they really having a good life? Today we have our priorities all wrong.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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