Why are both of you working??

I have yet to understand this excessive need for both parents to work in a family. I can understand it when your child is old enough to be on his own, but when your kid is 7, 8, 9 or younger you should be there. Both of you are not needed to work. If you choose to have kids you or your spouse should stay home with him/her/them.

I'm not going to try and say that it should be the wife or anything (especially in this age) but ONE of you should stay home. This goes hand in hand with a previous post I made about preschool. I know you can just drop them off at some place and then go to work but it's too much..... you may think you can handle it but your FIRST duty is to your kids and that job will suffer if you add something else.

Sometimes what it comes down to is your 8 year old kid having to come home from school to an empty house and just stay there by him/herself till you come home, and that's not safe.

Preschool, is it really necessary??

Why do parents send there kids to preschool?? Is it because both the parents want to work (which I don't believe both parents should be working with kids at such a young age but that will be talked about in a later post)? Is it because they think kids can learn more in a preschool setting than they can from their parents? What is it??

Anything that a kid of 2, 3, or 4 could learn at a preschool, they could also learn from there parents. With an added bonus of being able to spend a few extra years bonding with their parents before they have to start spending all day in school. What do you think they can learn in preschool that can't wait till kindergarten?? There's not much.

• The Alphabet?: You can easily teach your own kid the alphabet.... unless you don't know it yourself
• They don't need to know how to write much yet, but they can learn to speak just by watching you
• How To Count?: I think you can also teach them this
• How about colors, shapes, and other things like that?: You also know all about that stuff and they can learn that simply by watching you too, and playing with toys that also serve to help with teaching that stuff

We could keep going, but I think that anything you could come up with could be taught by you. Preschool is simply not necessary. Why would you want an excuse to be apart from your kids anyway? You only have a few years until they have to go to school. How do you want to spend them??

The Lorax

I watched The Lorax in the theater on monday. I thought it was great!! It was really funny!! This was one of my favorite Dr. Seuss books when I was growing up and I think that they did a really good job of expanding the story (and even adding an extra villain).