Attention Awareness

If you are having trouble getting your kids' attention just sit down and look comfortable.
-My Mom

     Watch the video before reading my blog. Seriously! Stop reading and watch the video. It is only one minute long. You could spend one less minute on Facebook tonight to make up for your "wasted time".
      Awareness is the key to life. Stop looking for the key to happiness and just embrace everything around you. Did you see the bear that was moonwalking? Truth is 86 percent of people don't see the bear. It would be tragic if you were actually there and too busy counting to notice Kobe walk through the group. Maybe he isn't your main man, and you wouldn't care about missing the chance to meet him. It also could have been Jenna Marbles, and everyone wants to meet her. Girls think she is hilariously honest, and boys think she is hot. Hate to wreak your lifetime dreams, but rumor has it she is dating her new bodyguard mister muscles. The point is to never miss the details in life, because sometimes the details really matter.
     Sometimes you may be missing the little things or even life threatening situations. Multitasking is the main cause of unawareness. No I'm not saying multitasking is bad, but try to limit yourself to only doing two tasks at a time. Doing so will make it possible for you to notice a eagle, smell smoke, or even see Jenna Marbles. Take the time to stop and smell a cactus. That would be a new experience for me and probably almost everyone else. All people know cactus are sharp, but rarely does someone know what one smells like. Everyone in the world could explain the delicious smell of a rose, but only a quarter of the people would know that roses have thorns.
      Awareness is most important while driving, which is why we shouldn't text and drive. Now, I am not going to go and say I am perfect, because I have texted while I was driving before just like all of us have. What conversation is important enough to end your life for? Answering none is not being selfish. Everyone should answer none, because in all reality "Last night was great. I thin..." is not worth your life. Phones take your awareness away from the road. Just a few days ago, Mr. Zubke's girlfriend's cousin was texting and drove head on into a semi in the other lane. We are teenagers; we aren't invincible. Next time you go to grab your phone as you're driving 65 mph down the highway, I hope you consider the risks on not being aware.

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Bro.

Sister: My brother is a real pain.
Grandpa: It could be worse.
Sister: That's impossible.
Grandpa: He could have a twin.

     Since the legendary Cinderella, sibling fights have always been the main problem. Does age difference between siblings affect how well they get along? I have often asked myself this question, because of my eight year old brother Lane. I have friends who have siblings who are much older and younger than them, and they seem to get along better than my brother and I do. However, I also have friends who have siblings close in age, and they also get along well with them. Are my brother and I just not very "compatible" siblings? Do we just never really want to get along with one another? Or is there really some correlation between the age gap in siblings, and how well they get along with one another?
     There has been a lot of research done about this topic, and many families even try to have children spaced apart a certain way to guarantee that their children will get along. Many psychologists and family doctors say that how well siblings get along depends mainly on their personalities, not how far apart in age they are. Other factors to consider are things such as parenting strategies and children's gender. However, it has been found that children who are more than two years apart sometimes have more conflict than those closer in age. Often, the farther apart in age the siblings are, the more they will fight. Kids who are closer in age are more likely to spend time together and to share friends and interests. Siblings who have closer relationships in childhood generally have more positive times together. Siblings who are not as close and have conflicting personalities often fight more. These siblings can even carry their resentments and anger to old age.
     Lane is my reason for why I will be an angry grandma. I really do love the kid, but we have had our moments. When he was one and a half, he threw our house phone at me and made my whole left jaw back and blue for weeks. The phone eventually transformed into big metal toy tractors. Incase you were wondering, they don't feel too great. Last year at his birthday party, he was shooting me with his not so soft airsoft gun. My mom watched and laughed at us.
     I must admit I am not all innocence either. Several years ago when Jenny was over, my brother kept kicking us. I finally pushed him, and he fell on to a laundry basket and got a bloody nose. Three years ago I was shoveling the sidewalk, and he ran right into my shovel mid swing. My mom came running out screaming at me for using a shovel to hit my brother. We both bursted out laughing as we told her that it was accident and that I wasn't  beating him with the shovel. He now has a inch long scar between his eyebrows from that horrible accident.
     We usually are fighting but on one rare occasion we hugged. This picture is from right after I told him that on my way to National FFA I would get to stop at the John Deer factory to buy him a new tractor. What can I say? He is the best brother I have.

Dream vs. Dream

There was this boy who woke up one night with a nightmare. He cries, “Mummy, Mummy!” His mother came rushing into the bedroom and the boy told her that he had a dream that Grandma died. So a week later, his Grandma died.The boy woke up another night screaming and he told his mother that he dreamt that Grandpa died. Strangely enough, a week later Grandpa died. The boy woke up yet another night screaming that he had a nightmare in which his father died.The mother told the father and he became very cautious. He watched his health and treated his body excellently. So a week passed and the postman died.
     What is a dream? Is it your thoughts at night or your high hopes. These should not be named the same. I do not dream at night about my dreams for the future, nor do I dream of doing my dreams at night in the future.
     Having these two named the same may wreak kids confidence. It tells them that the horrible things that happen in the their dreams are the same thing as what they want for the future. Then, we wonder why children don't want to sleep.
     I have always had scary dreams that skip aroundand do not make any sense. At the end, I usually end up dieing. For example, our house is flooding and I drive the diesel pickup into the water and drown, I am in a sketch old motel and people chase me with needles, or when I am running away from a psychotic killer, I get suck under a fence and he stabs me to death. I have had enough bad dreams to count for 10 people.
     Night dreams should be named mistakes. Then, all of our "mistakes" would happen at night while we are sleeping. Often times our night thoughts are forgotten too. I would definitely enjoy sleeping through and forgetting all of my mistakes.