What kind of a world are we leaving for our children? My daughter thinks it's perfectly normal to be raised in a single parent home. To add to it, she sees her cousin being raised the same way. They grow up watching the violence in movies, video games, on the news, and yet we expect them to behave like perfect little angels when they are among their friends. Some children go home where they are brutalized by their parents, and then when they return to school and bully other children, we ask why?
I fear the day that G has to start school. Not just because my baby will be a big girl, and it will be the start of her going out and exploring the world without me, but I'm worried how other children will treat her. I see other parents all over facebook talking about how their children are teased at school or physically abused by other kids and the parents don't know what to do. How have we lost the way to teach our children to respect others?
I know it's a stupid thought, but I just wish we could live in a world of peace. And I mean peace all the way down to the playground. It's just a pipe dream, but maybe if we instill in them the proper playground rules, they will take those rules to the adult world. Things so simple as sharing, using manners, not bullying, and always making the new kid feel welcome. Wouldn't that make the world so much better?
Next time: Tutor time, ugh!
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