There have been a couple of viral videos going around featuring five year old girls behaving much, much older than their age. It’s actually amusing to watch. But some adults are wondering what these kids have been exposed to, for behaving the way they are in these videos.

I’ve seen both and the only thing that bothers me about it is in wondering what it was I did when I was five years old! Seriously. I don’t think it’s easy to judge these kids. They’re just being adorable, I guess. This is only about a fraction of their life and who they are.

The first video is of this little girl who has the makings of a make-up guru. She knows her make-up brushes really well and I find that amusing because I learned about the importance of having different make-up brushes when I was 35, not five years old!

I’d be happy to see more of her make-up videos, that’s for sure!

This next video is of a five year old saying she will never marry a guy if she doesn’t have a job first. The way she says it with conviction makes me hope that she keeps that good sense even when she’s a lot older.

Are you bothered by how these five year old kids are behaving or do you find all these cuteness part of growing up?

Kansas is broke.  I know this because it’s my home state, and people I love will not be getting badly needed state income tax refunds.  So, I don’t know if it’s part of the whole budget-cutting plan, or if Kansas just cares less about its kids than it did when I was growing up there, but there are some who want to stop doing inspections of homes that provide foster care.

The idea is that state foster care is being run by private agencies, and these agencies already have to meet rigorous standards to be accredited, so state inspection is both redundant (duplicating standards that are being enforced by another entity) and inconvenient (it’s such a pain to have someone making sure you’re doing your job!). 

Here are a few things I know about this: 

• It’s already almost impossible to qualify to become a foster parent in Kansas, but how does NOT inspecting foster homes change that?
• Not a week goes by when we don’t hear stories of something horrible happening to a foster child who has fallen through the cracks.  And someone thinks less supervision is an answer to that?

Kids are in foster care because we wanted them to safe and protected.  What possible sense does it make to stop making sure they are safe and protected once we get them there?

It is the modern age and for most people, the need to sacrifice is apparent. The same is the case when it comes to daily routines where parents have to report for work thus being forced to surrender kids to daycare centers. The problem is when a parent worries on how his or her child is doing. The TLC Learning Academy in Southaven may have a solution for that.

The TLC Learning Academy in Southaven should prove to be a fit gauge to this concern. TLC has live streaming video cameras — 21 in total throughout the center. Each is accessible online so parents can watch their children while at work.

Shari Robbins, the program director at TLC, said the kid-vision cameras have been a great selling point for parents. She added that they’re also a great tool for keeping an eye on TLC’s employees. “We want to have that accountability so parents know we’re doing our job,” she said.

The program is password-protected and completely secure. Each child can have up to three adults with access to the live feed. Robbins said some families use this as a way for out-of-town grandparents to see their grandchildren.

(Source)My Fox