Boston Marathon

      Monday April 15^th at 2:50 pm on Boylston Street in Boston Tamerlan Tsarnaev who is 26 years old and his younger brother Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev 18 years old set off 2 bombs at the finish line at the Boston marathon. Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev was a student at Umass Dartmouth and was known as a good student. People who knew him said they would never suspect him to do something like that. After the bombing Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev went back to his school campus until Tuesday. Dzhokhar and Tamerlan went into hiding after Tuesday because they found out they were suspects.

      So many people were focused on Boston and they towns next to it, they didn’t pay attention to any other towns. April 18 there was a gun fight in Watertown between the two brothers and the Watertown police. A policeman was killed and another seriously hurt. Thankfully no other policemen were hurt. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed during that gun fight but Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev got away. After the whole town went into a lock down and was searched. Hundreds of policemen from different towns came to help.  Helicopters hovered above the town in search for Dzhokhar.

     They eventually had an idea that he was hiding in someone’s boat that was in their backyard. The police in the helicopters had a device that could show that he was in the boat due to the heat his body was giving off.  They knew he was alive because his body was still giving off heat which was good because they wanted to capture him alive to get information out of him. It took a while but they eventually got him out of the boat alive and took him to the hospital because he had many gun wounds. It didn’t take long for Boston to figure out who the suspects were and capture Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev. Which shows how strong Boston is and no one should ever mess with us.

Stay At Home Mom

  So many parents don’t have the opportunity to be home for their kids because they have to work. Some kids have to wake themselves up, get their own breakfast, make their own lunch and come home to an empty house and do their homework without being able to ask for help. A lot of parents have to work to keep up with bills, gas money etc. I interviewed a stay at home mother Jeanine Bandecchi (my mother) from Norton MA to see what it was like o be a stay at home mother.

    What’s it like being a stay at home mom? “I love being a stay at home mom. It gives me the opportunity to really be involved in my kid’s lives.” What do you do all day? “I clean, cook, do laundry etc...” Do you ever get out of the house? “I always get out of the house to do errands and have the occasional lunch time with friends.” Have you ever been a working mom before? If so did you ever feel like you didn’t spend a lot of time with your kids? “I have been a working mom before and I was torn because I felt I wasn't giving enough time to my kids. It is tough to balance family life and work. I am happy I am able to put all my time and energy into my family and their needs. “If you can would you try and get a job?
 “My family always comes first, so if I did get a job it would have to be part time and not interfere with my time that I need to be home.”

    As you can see being a stay home mom has its benefits. Moms can clean around the house, start dinner, and help their kids in any way possible. They can be stay at home mothers because they don’t have to worry about money and bills as much as other families do.

Teen Moms

                                       

   The show “16 and Pregnant” on MTV shows the difficulties of what it’s like to be a teen mother. Young girls watching this show only see what’s good about being a teen mother. They think that if a teenage girl becomes pregnant she can be on this show and get paid. But MTV doesn’t show what happens behind the scenes. These girls are up with their babies all night, they struggle to make money to feed and clothe the baby and themselves, and they are still in high school so they have to do homework and study for exams. Personally I think some of the things that happen in this show are staged to exaggerate the drama so people are interested and keep watching.