Messages By: care4faces

Breastfeeding in public....sure if a woman gets out a boob before she gets her child ready to eat - then she is inconsiderate and inappropiate.  But that would be 1 woman in a thousand who wants people to see her...most woman do NOT want stares. She will use a blanket to cover herself - but sometimes it is just way to hot for the baby to eat under a blanket.  I've had my daughter come up gasping with a sweaty head full of wet hair from being under a blanket.  So - sometimes I went without but kept my shirt low.  And most women will be modest.  That is the reality. 

Condoms passed out in school.  HELLO!  This is just another reason why I homeschool.  I don't want some teacher/school board giving my son and daughters the message of sex.  I'm not looking forward to teaching my son about it - but I know I will do a better job of it since I know his heart (he's 8) I know his dreams and I want to keep them intact - I have a vested interest in his life...some teacher who has 30 kids does not.   

Disciplining someone elses child? If they parent isn't around - I will tell a child to stop - or not to use certain language....etc.  If the parent IS around and is letting it all slide - I will hollar for my kids and tell them we have to go - that we can't be around people using language like that - or not playing safely or whatever...passive aggressive? Yup.  I just get so sick of parents being lazy about parenting ~ 'cause they are only causing themselves more problems in the future.  But I'll use their kids bad behaviour as a learning tool - to teach my kids how to act, how to react, how to remove themselves from bad acting people. 

Oh my goodness! I had forgotten about that.  I could run to a store just for a quick break from my newborn - think about her and BOOM!  My body would react and the milk would start to leak - my shirt would get wet because my breast pads would get full before I could get to my baby. 

Or I remember once I was standing in a line at Meijers after my third baby...and someone else's baby started to cry.  And my breasts got hard, then started to leak.  I laughingly asked my companion if she thought the mom of that baby would let me feed him. (I was kidding!) I was HURTING!  And nothing stops that uncomfortable feeling except to feed your baby. 

I've been reading some of these posts and I'm amazed that so many are in support of Amanda and her tirades and running away.   

If I were the mom there'd be alot worse going on in regard to Amanda.  Hello! She is 16.  Not a woman...just has the hormones of one.  Not the emotional and mental maturity.  Maturity means you do the right thing in any given situation.  Running away is not the right thing to do.  She wasn't being beat at home.  She wasn't being belittled.  She was being told not to live with the boyfriend.  I mean, come on!  Many people go thru worse.  When I hear a child say "I'm almost an adult" I always think...just for having said that - means you are not.  (Just like when someone says "I'm so crazy" - it usually means "I hope you think I'm crazy and fun - cause really I'm not").  When you truly become an adult it just hits you one day...you are doing the adult mature things (studying if at school, working hard, paying bills, paying dues...)...not the adult immature things (sex, drugs, alcohol, letting parents worry). 

I'm amazed Amanda had cash and time to go and buy another phone.  HELLO? Mom? You thinking?  What if she took off and just kept walking?  She had cash - she could have.  Again, if I were that mom I would have taken the phone and purse/cash and not given them back until I saw a glimmer of responsibility.  Like Carrol O'Connor says "Do whatever it takes..." 

I hope the boys parents DO get into trouble and lots of it.  They knew.  They had to have known.  There were confrontations before they left town for Petes sake.  Even if you think you are rescueing a child from trouble you don't just take them out of the state. 

I don't like the idea of boarding school though.  Those parents need to learn how to parent just as much as that girl needs to grow up.   

As for the girl "doing just fine with her boyfriends family".  Oh please! What is she learning there? That her family is not worth any consideration?  That premarital sex is ok starting at such an early age? Hey everyone is doing it younger and younger...nothing WRONG with that.  Lets see the traits the girl displayed on the show...Deviance, deception, cursing, rebellion - lets guess which family she had learned all that with. 

And the boyfriend on the phone saying something to the effect of 'she never told us' - HELLO - If I'm gonna take your kid - for months at a time - AND keep her out of school AND take her out of state - Then you and I are going to talk at some point.  So lets just call that what it is - a load of crap.