I want to go back to first grade.
With storytime. You would all sit around a rug, crossing your legs. There would have been secret treaties to arrange who was sitting next to who. The teacher reading aloud, changing their voice for each of the characters. And no quiz afterward to test your listening comprehension.
What the heck is going on today?? I mean come on, my ten year old sister, in fifth grade mind you, was going to school with another young lady who got pregnant!!!! I couldn't believe it!!! Tell me, does that seem wrong, or am I just not living up to the times we are in. What times are we in??
A few months ago I had the opportunity to chat with Kendall Ciesemier, the 15-year-old founder of the Kids Caring 4 Kids organization, which provides impoverished African children with food and education. This past September, she appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” with former President Bill Clinton, who came to her high school and spoke at a surprise assembly.
Kendall felt moved to fight for justice in fifth grade, when she watched an Africa special on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” about orphans. One girl her age had lost her family to AIDS, and now she carried the responsibility of raising her younger sibling. Compelled by the orphan’s pain and grief, Kendall signed up to sponsor a child through World Vision that day. Later she expanded her sponsorship to include an entire Zambian village. Her charity eventually grew into a nonprofit organization, Kids Caring 4 Kids.
“It’s gotten so much easier for people to join the force to fight AIDS,” Kendall said at a coffee shop in January 2008.
Over the past few years I've been watching youth, seeing how they react in society today. My observations have found that youth today are much louder, immature, disrespectful, and more prone to violence than i remember the teenagers of my day being. Granted I'm not the oldest individual, but the change I've seen has been drastic.
*note: This one requires some information about me first. I am 18 and a senior in highschool.
I was talking with an old friend of mine the other day about random political issues, and he seemed very adamant on his stance on several of them. I asked him who he think he would vote for to accomplish those things and he said, "oh, i'm not voting."
Unless you've been in hiding, I'm pretty sure that you're well aware of the eight students from Lakeland, FL that have been charged with kidnapping and battery, among other charges, for their collective attack on a fellow student. Although the media has covered many aspects of the story, I still have one question.
Where were these teenagers' parents?
When I say “Morality” I’m talking about being a good person; not being a drunken fool, respecting one’s body and the body of others, being honest even when it may hurt you, and other things of the sort.
Am I the only one in this fading Republic that has any sense of decency and good judgment? It seems everywhere I look I see nothing but pot heads, booze hounds, and whores!
For my whole life I have had difficulties. My Father was the local singer at a church, and a troubling alcoholic. My 22 year old brother was born abnormally. He was cursed with learning disabilities as a child. My father was not very approving of him. My father later cheated on my mother, I put the blame on myself for years.
