Blog #5 "to have children or be childless"

I interviewed a really good friend of mine that recently got married and I asked her what her view was on if they were going to have children or not. She had said that yes she did in fact want children but she wanted to wait a while longer. Her husband is ready to start having them now because he would like a big family. They talk about it quite frequently and so far have decided to hold off for now. They had a long distance relationship for a while so her main point of waiting to have chilren is so they are able to spend time together before bringing a child into the mix. I myself agree with her on that note. I have a little girl that just turned 2 and she is so wonderful but also a handful at the same time. Making the decision to have a chiild is definitely a big one because  you and your family will go through a lot of changes. I am always telling her stories of little stunts that my little one has done and she laughs and then comments and says that is how she knows she isn't quite ready for children right now but in time she will be.

Melissa V.

Blog #4

I decided to respond to the question whether or not sex ed should be taught in the nations public schools. I personally feel that yes it should. I know that some parents may disagree and would like to be the ones to inform their children about abstinence but by the time they feel their children should be informed about sex it may possibly be too late. Children are growing up much faster than our generation and are exposed to way more stuff than I myself and an older generation were exposed to. I feel that sex ed needs to be about abstinence-plus becasue not only will they be learning about the importance of abstinence but there is definitely going to be the group who chooses not to follow the path of abstinence and so therefore if  abstienece plus is taught they could possibly prevent the chances of either getting pregnant or contracting and std.

Blog #3

I decided to rate my preventitive practices. After answering the ten questions I had yes on 7 out of 10.. The one's that I need to work on would be eating a healthful diet consisting of the appropriate servings of fruits and veggies ect, participate in moderate-intense physical activity, and relax/ maintain an overall sense of wellness. I do my best to follow a fairly healthy diet especially because I have children and I like them to have a well balanced meal but sometimes days are hectic and that does not always happen. As fo exercise I enjoy going outside and walking and I pull my little one around in her wagon but when it is so extremely hot it is almost impossible. Since it has cooled down a bit the past few weeks I have gotten out and walked about 1 mile twice a week and ocassionally three times a week. Some is better than none but I do realize I need to do more. Then my last fault is not taking time out for myself. Some days I feel like I might go insane being a stay at home mom and a full time student but keeping up with it all doesn't give me an extreme amount of time to relax. I guess my relaxing is sleep because most nights once my little one is down for the night I am too! :) Getting enough sleep is something I must have. Sleep is something I can not do well without and at times having a two year old you for sure need your sleep in order to laugh off some of the crazy things they pull. :) I also am very good about recieving routine preventive care. Luckily for me I do that since I had caught the basal cell skin spot on my nose before it had gotten very bad. Since I also have a passion for the dental field I regulalry make my routine dental checks as well.

Melissa Van Der Maaten

Blog #2

I believe that healthcare should be a privilege, and personally I feel the health care reform is a bad idea. I think that if it does happen then the level of care is going to tremendously go down. There are going to be anyone and everyone going to doctors for things that maybe prior to the health care reform they would not have gone for. Getting into a doctor’s office is going to be more difficult. I do not foresee that it is a good thing for the health care field. If health care was made more affordable then more people would be able to have it. With healthcare reform that puts us tax payers in the position where we are going to have to pay for those who do not hold a job but still will receive health insurance provided by the government. According to cnnmoney.com you will lose the five important freedoms that many of us enjoy the opportunity to have. For instance being able to choose what specialist you are able to go to or what premium you are going to decide to go with for that particular calendar year. I think that we should have left things how they were and not have had the health care reform pass.






References

Tully, S. (2009) 5 freedoms you’d lose in health care reform. Retrieved on February 16th 2010 from

http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/24/news/economy/health_care_reform_obama.fortune/index.htm