T.V. just too scary?

Growing up my favorite show was Law & Order.  I am not sure exactly what about it made me curl up on the couch at night to watch.  I loved it, reruns, new episodes, special guests.  I just couldn’t get enough. Except,  when I was pregnant I felt very emotional and every time it was on I found myself crying and shuddering at the horrific crime being portrayed.  Usually it was some sort of sexual crime in nature that violated a child.  So as the months went by I took a much needed hiatus from my favorite show looking forward to post-partum days and steadier hormones.

That days has still not come.  Two & half years later, I cannot watch Law&Order due to the realistic events the show portrays.  It can very easily keep me up at night wondering what the probability of my child being a victim of one of those crimes.  Many times a gruesome scene of a bloody child is shown.  That is just enough for me.  When I became a parent I learned how to share the pain of any parent.  Even though it is fiction it remind me of the awful things in the news.  So now I stick to Max & Ruby and Sesame Street.  We are all happier that way.

After a long night of teething……we are awake at 7:00 am. This is where being a mother becomes a real job. It is a Saturday morning and regardless of how many hours you slept, you still need to wake up when your children do, feed them , change them play with them, and answer all their needs.  It is always a job being a mother but who actually works more than 40 hours a week without getting paid over time?