Sometimes it is very hard to focus.  For example, when your daughter has left for the Persian Gulf.  I feel lucky this time.  She is in a much safer job  since the first time she went there.  In those days, she worked on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier and spent her time running under moving planes.  One kid was literally blown off the deck by a jet engine and ended up in a hospital in Japan with every single bone broken. It is a long way down to the water.   My daughter just had her last two fingers sliced off by a jerk who wasn't paying attention to what he was doing.  They put them back on and stitched them well and they are actually working rather well.

Now, she is an officer after all these years and she has a desk job.  She is still with the fighter jets but she is in control of the getting the supplies to keep them in the air.  You would think that is a safer job.  It is except that it is in the Persian Gulf and any ship there is not exactly a safe place to be.  Ships are not really safe places even when there is no war going on.  Accidents happen on a regular basis because they aren't focused.

Our children today do not focus.  We don't teach them to concentrate and keep their minds on what they are doing.  It is becoming a lost talent.  Because of TV, they only focus for about one minute.  They don't sit and read for long periods of time, or play one game all the way through or anything.  Unless they are moving and active, they become unfocused.  Imagine them sitting through some of the inservices we have had to sit through.  We have a tough time surviving.  What do you think would happen to them?  What if it really mattered and they needed the information to survive?