Smoke Detector Education
Posted on | February 23, 2012 | No Comments
A Parent’s Worst Nightmare by In today’s economy, it has become almost essential for families to be at least two-income household. The ideal of a parent working outside the home and one staying home to take care of the kids and the house doesn’t seem practical anymore. The answer many parents have found is in-home childcare, but that choice can be problematic. In the past, the big concern has been babysitters spending all their time on the phone or eating food out of the refrigerator. The modern reality can be much worse. Jonny Brand seemed like a nice neighborhood teen. Conscientious boy, polite, loved kids. A real winner. So why not pay him to take care of their two young kids, Dean and Bonnie Williams thought. It’s just for a few hours after their preschool lets out and Bonnie gets home. Penny and Michael love him, call him Uncle Jonny.” It’s a No Lose situation: The Williamses get to work at their jobs, and Jonny gets to save for a car and for his college education. Win-win all over! Things worked out well for months. Then the kids started having behavioral problems, the parents report noticing. Penny was waking up at least one night a week, screaming from bad dreams. Michael started wetting the bed again, a problem Bonnie and Dean had thought he’d licked two years previously. What to do? They determined to spend more time with the kids over the weekends. But the problems didn’t get any better, they just got worse. Soon, the kids were acting out at preschool, elevating to the point where, at least once a week, the school was calling Bonnie or Dean to come pick them up early. And then, the