And I think I’ve done my best. I’ve made mistakes, but every parent does. If she was eating toxic stuff as a baby, that was through no fault of my trying to keep her safe. I could’t guarantee her baby food would have been free of poison. All I could do is hope they didn’t do it. She was also born in Los Angeles and lived there for the first two years of her life. Maybe the air quality harmed her in developmental ways, but we didn’t have the resources to move. You do what you can, but I hate that we poison our kids without even knowing it.
All you can do is give them a better life than the one that came before them. It sure beats sending children to work in the mines, or 50% of them dying as infants, etc. One day we’ll get there :)
Or even worse, what they did in the middle ages, sell them into slavery if you couldn’t afford another mouth to feed. Yes, we definitely are treating children better than any people I can think of in recorded history.
The world has never been a safe place, but we keep trying. You do the best you can with the information you have and hope for the best.
And I think I’ve done my best. I’ve made mistakes, but every parent does. If she was eating toxic stuff as a baby, that was through no fault of my trying to keep her safe. I could’t guarantee her baby food would have been free of poison. All I could do is hope they didn’t do it. She was also born in Los Angeles and lived there for the first two years of her life. Maybe the air quality harmed her in developmental ways, but we didn’t have the resources to move. You do what you can, but I hate that we poison our kids without even knowing it.
All you can do is give them a better life than the one that came before them. It sure beats sending children to work in the mines, or 50% of them dying as infants, etc. One day we’ll get there :)
Or even worse, what they did in the middle ages, sell them into slavery if you couldn’t afford another mouth to feed. Yes, we definitely are treating children better than any people I can think of in recorded history.