by K L Humphreys

Created on: January 18, 2010

I am a parent and I was probably over protective and now as a grandparent I think I have found an answer to the ills of growing up in a crazy world.

Inoculations could be the answer! Not your ordinary health clinic or personal pediatrician shots in the arm and buttocks but something stronger.

I want an entire range of vaccines to protect my grandchildren from the pains of growing up, and struggling through puberty. I haven't figured all the shots I would need but these might aid in the prevention of childhood cruelties of making bad choices.

Now I realize that growing up is going to happen whether the right decisions are made or not, but what if parents could inoculate their children and they would be immune to speaking to strangers, or wandering off at the playground.

How about a shot in the morning to prevent them from hanging with children that don't meet your criteria. No more bad influences from the kids next door who watch too much television or play too much on the computer.

Vaccines that guaranteed your son or daughter always doing their homework and passing all their tests with A's. Gone are the days when your baby doesn't want to hang out at the mall and be disrespectful to others.

Two shots a week to end any boy friends picking up your little Tinkerbell on a motorcycle, and curfews are always kept.

No more debates about pink and green hair or black fingernails, but polite and courteous young men and women who can't wait to please mom and dad.

Children who are inoculated on a daily, weekly or monthly basis would never forget to write or call grandparents to personally thank them for sweaters, socks and a savings account.

Oh how wonderful life would be if we could only convince some scientist to invent the vaccine that would prevent all underage drinking and all drug abuse. The idea that our sons and daughters would abstain and marry for the right reasons instead of following the crowd.

The thought of waking up in the morning after the prom and your teenager had not begged to stay out all night but wanted to come home and bring their friends with them.

I guess inventing a vaccine that would make parents life easier is a dream that will never come true in that sense, but helping your child make the right decisions comes from you and me.

We can worry and fret all we want but training our children and perhaps even the grand ones is our responsibility. It's not up to the government, school or even the church. They are a part but not the complete picture.

We all have recieved inoculations in our lives but it was from living life one day at a time.

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