So sad.....=(

I was saddened today to hear that Heath Ledger is dead. Not that I was a huge fan or anything. I honestly can't think of a lot that he was in. It makes me sad though that someone so young, and with so much fame, just can't be happy. Shows you money and fame are not all that make the world go round. I was in the car with the kids when I heard, and I was kind of blown away, like we always are, when someone famous is killed. Chloe asked me what had happened, so I told her, and she says to me "Well, that's why you don't do drugs, you keep telling me that." Which I have to say, I patted myself on the back for. Of course, she is only eight, and who knows what she will be telling me when she is 16. Seems like times are very different. Then again, maybe they aren't, and I am just older. I'm not stupid or blind, I know who was doing drugs when I was a kid. Of course, there were some, who I learned about later, that did sort of surprise me. Which just shows you, it can affect anyone. I was reading an article in People magazine, about how teenage pregnancy is on a rise again. Of course, it has been in a very steady decline, so we have to look at the facts, not just the tabloids. Thanks to that Jamie Lynn girl, it's all over the news now, so everyone is coming out about how the teenage girls think it's cool to get pregnant. Not that it shoud matter, since all the schools have daycare! Ugh, I'm just not sure how to feel about all of this. It is hard to be a parent. I want my kids to have friends, and be well liked, but I also want them very sheltered. It's the dorky kids that turned out well, right? The really cool, popular kids are all putzing along somewhere, right? Of course, there are some that slipped through that crack, and are very successful and irritatingly well off. So how do we protect our kids? I don't want my daughter pregnant, or on drugs. At this point in her life, she enjoys watching cops with Craig, because she thinks the people are all morons. When I am honest, and expose it to her, she understands that it is dangerous. How will she feel eight or ten years from now? This part of the game gets scary, as our kids get older. Just this morning, she tried to pull up the Nickelodeon website, and she spelled it wrong. So on this page is websites she can log onto for Nickelodeon games, and on the right hand side, where they place all of the advertising, is three topless girls, with an advertisement for finding local girl entertainment. Of course, Chloe being so young, and seeing her own parents streak through the house at times, she really didn't think anything of it. She is so young, she didn't even realize that it was bad for that to be online. So I explain it to her, and then I call Craig to vent. The internet can really tick me off. Yes, she is supervised, but my lord, she is old enough to get on her websites on her own, but my gosh, one slip of spelling, and she's in a whole other world. Nerve wracking. The internet will absolutely NOT be in my childrens bedrooms, and the computer stays in the dining room where we can see what's going on. I'm even on the fence about t.v.'s in there rooms, and cellphones, man, I'm still on the fence with that one too. Guess I'll take it one day at a time. I still have time, right? Of course, my 8 year old has the mind of a 25 year old. =) And Koben, my little precious angel, well, I'm keeping him in a closet. j/k =P