Follow The Yellow Brick Road~~~August 17, 1939

“Follow the Yellow Brick Road ... There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home ... Oh, Auntie Em, Auntie Em ... and Toto, too!”

Movie goers first head those words 72 years ago today. A classic movie with a classic message; 'Home is where we need to be'.

HOME!!! HOME!!! HOME!!! Has a nice ring to it! No matter where we travel or what adventures that life sends our way; Home is a place we can run to and feel safe and warm.

At Least It Use To Be!! The shattering of the nuclear family, divorce, one parent homes, abusive parents and parents that put themselves before the children they brought into this world have become common place and almost are treated as the NORM.

There is nothing normal about an abused child. Or a hungry child. Or a child who has to stay at home alone because they live in a single parent home and that parent needs to work. There is nothing normal about Children Raising Children because the parents are working.

Yes parents need to work. In these uncertain economic times a family with only one income is becoming a rare occurrence. It still breaks my heart that generations if our children are growing up not having the opportunities that I had as a child. Mother at home by the time I got there from school, a snack waiting for me, guidance with my homework, family dinners every night, watching television shows as a family, attending movies as a family and doing something together at least one day of every weekend that I can remember. I wish every child had that up bringing and was able to hold those memories.

Life is hard enough, once we reach adulthood,  to waste even one second of a child's life having to worry about their basic needs.

EVERY CHILD SHOULD BE A DOROTHY!! EVER CHILD SHOULD BE ON THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD!!

I know you are not rich. I know you are struggling. I know your family comes first and rightly so. But PLEASE find a way to help get OUR CHILDREN on the Yellow Brick Road.

Find a way through a charity or maybe Big Brothers or Big Sisters. There are opportunities out there in every country to help children.

FIND A WAY!! IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO!! AND I KNOW, IN YOUR GOOD HEARTS, THAT YOU WANT TOO!!

Love ya,
Night