In recent months I have given alot of thought to our children and how we are failing them as a nation, as a society. Kids are bombarded with negative and conflicting messages by the media and the adults arround them.
Look this way, don't look that way.
Act like these kids and be cool, act approriately and be bulied and ridiculed.
TV video games full of blood gore, sex, etc.
I wish there were some way that we could identify at risk kids such as those whose parents are incarcerated, whose home lives are unstable, who have witnessed repeated violence in the home, etc. and get them into counseling, conflict resolution, anger management, etc. RIGHT AWAY. Before the behaviors start.
I am so tired of reading about these kids AFTER they have screwed up their own and others lives irrevocably. I want there to be some sort of national dialogue about our kids and how to keep them from getting to this sad end. Every time one of these cases comes up we all rush to put our $.02 in there about what the punishment should be, the who and the why blah blah blah.
Too bad we can't get this country to be more concerned with prevention than punishment after the fact.
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