O, love's best habit is in seeming trust
William Shakespeare
as i read this again and again, i think of children as they grow and how without reservation they grown in love their own feelings of love. they are self nurtured its so pure.. then they become young teens, then teens, go into school and are some of the meanest people that could walk the face of the earth.
i am watching this incredible meanness and disgusting behavior. my grand daughter had open heart surgery many times and it left her with a scare on her chest. her life and our gift of her life is that scare. it reminds of us the gift given to us by birth, the illness then life saving techniques that continue this life.
and one day while walking in her school she wasn’t even out of grammar school i heard these two girls making fun of her for the sickness the scare. i was shocked, actually horrified. then i heard it again for the same girls in junior high school. and it goes on and on....
i guess i am confused at why these children are allowed to remain in school. in her school? with her attacking her happiness, and life on such a brutal level .. abuse she is sustaining abuse each day we ask our society not to do. we arrest people for this. we prosecute them. we call them abusers. but as children they are said not be, nothing we can do? hold them accountable now. not later on when they are all living in the world of abuse that they have learned there is nothing u can do about it now.
help your kids, grandchildren make them accountable for abuse. send them to training classes like adults have to do to. sent them to step programs make it mandatory and most of all see what kind of abuse they must be living with to give it out. and stop calling it kids these days...
back to my subject line ... seeming trust... love... don’t fail your children now or your grand children just in case your own child cant see past their own pressures of life.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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I am sorry that you and your granddaughter suffer the ignorance and insensitivity of these classmates.
You write that we each must hold our children accountable.
While I agree with that, I suggest we as adults take it one step further.
We must act to make up for other parents' shortcomings.
As a witness to the other kids' cruel comments, stop those children, get their name, and report the incident to teachers and administrators.
Expecting other parents to raise courteous children is not good enough in today's society.
Sometimes we have to help push kids in the right direction -- our own kids as well as those kids belonging to someone else.
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