I have been glued to the news channels the past few days keeping up with the Israel fighting situation and the UN vote then the London terrorist plot then the terrorists in Italy (although I didn't get a lot of information about this one).  Beside wondering how many other people where glued to the new, I was thinking about Humming bird's history suggesting that they keep current events logs and about all the things going on in the world right now and what that would mean for a current events log.  This isn't something that I am going to be able to be a spectator on, it is going to require active participation on my part.  There are so many things that a young person (I want to say child so bad) will not quite be able to understand.  I remember some things from my teenage years and it was a little scary because I didn't know all of what was going on and no one talked to me about it. I don't want my children to be scared, just aware; but when does that awareness need to start?  Is 7th and 8th grade too early? is 12th grade too late? is it better to bring awareness to them in 9th grade, 10th grade, or 11th grade?  Maybe a slow awareness to the events around them is better.  It was only a week or two ago I was wondering what a good magazine would be for this current events log, now I'm re-thinking the whole idea.  Not of doing the current events project, just of making it what is going on in the world.  I believe we will start small and more local by doing our current events on what is going on in our area.  We may expand it to say, the homeschooling community in the U.S.  But since Humming bird is only entering 8th grade, we have time to work our way up to what is happening in the whole world.

How I miss the days of Mayberry and Andy Griffith when every thing seemed so simple.