Mother and Mama Sue were right! Part 2

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A few minutes after my morning email about water safety went out to all of you on Friday morning, a mama left a great comment. It was so helpful that I decided to pass it on to you, too. She said:

This is such an important issue! My first two babies were born in Florida and during the prenatal class, they spent a lot of time talking about drowning prevention. So I am long familiar with the “watcher wears a bracelet” idea. It is all too easy to assume someone else is watching the kids.

Another thing I learned later from a Reader’s Digest® story is that drowning is SILENT. So even if you are “watching” the kids in the pool, you really have to watch and cannot assume that you will hear if something goes wrong.

There are also very sad stories about children going outside and drowning in the pool while their mothers are taking a nap!

Thank you for posting about this. Everyone can always use a reminder about water safety.

When I was a new mama, I was like so many (well, maybe ALL) new mothers. I felt like I needed all the help I could get, so I read and read, I observed, and I drank in advice from older women. The comment the mama left on Daily Encouragement for Homeschooling Mothers on Friday reminded me of a few more tidbits I picked up when my children were little:

• Keep bathroom doors closed, even when not occupied, because children might not be strong enough to pull themselves out if they fall into a toilet.
• Never leave a small child in a bathtub without adult supervision.
• Never leave water in a bucket — see number one.
• Never leave water in a child’s wading pool. Saving water is not worth the risk.

Well, tomorrow I hope to get back to more pleasant topics, but I just have to stop every now and then and pour out my love for you in practical ways like this one. I’m so grateful for the women who did that for me.

I don’t feel like an older woman on the inside but my driver’s license says that I am, so today’s post is the “older woman warning the younger women” way to say, “I love you.”

Oh, and speaking of driver’s licenses, I heard a story the other day about a sweet country woman we knew for several years. She was from “way back in the holler.” She was a devoted believer. I recently got to see her Bible where she wrote down when she finished reading the Bible through every year for 35 straight years.

The ways of the world were a bit of a mystery to her. Decades ago, when she tried to get a drivers license, she went to take the test and couldn’t pass it.

Later she told someone that she tried to take the test but they wouldn’t give her a license and she tried to buy a license but they wouldn’t give her a license, so she was just driving anyway.

Oops! I certainly hope she got that worked out eventually!

Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior,
not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine,
teaching what is good, 
so that they may encourage the young women
to love their husbands,
to love their children, 
to be sensible, pure, workers at home,
kind, being subject to their own husbands,
so that the word of God will not be dishonored.
Titus 2:3-5

 

 

 

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