If mnmoderatedem lives long enough without frying whatever brain she has with recreational chemicals, she may come to understand older people's love and concern for their grandchildren.
Since the terror attacks in Spain and France and Germany and ... really happened and ABC, CBS, CNN, and NBC reported the attacks when they came up from air between their lip-locked spells on Obama's @$$, the Mom would have been worried regardless of which was her source of news. Deaths of loved ones, friends, and acquaintances is a frequent enough part of an older person's life. The Mom didn't want the added grief of losing a grandchild just entering adult life to a terrorist attack.