The message our children need to hear but almost never do

I'm glad love came both of your ways

Love is the power


love is the strength


love is the reality
 
Norah said:
I'm in my first year of college right now and so I havent been out of high school that long and I can tell you that from my experience national politics had very little bearing on my choices and actions, and i'm sure it was like that for most of the other people in my school. The most stressful things for us was not what was happening in Washington DC but what was happening inbetween classes, at football games, at dances, at friend's houses, and things like that. There is no wage disparity for kids in school, maybe for our parents, but day in and day out it's a different focus and a different world for those four years of high school. Even right now in college for me the stress level plummeted after I graduated high school and i'm not even talking about the academic stuff but just more of the social stuff. For high school students and for college students being able to weather a future storm doesnt come from a political party or politicians but instead it comes from your friends, your parents, your teachers, your coaches and people like that. If a high school senior never experiences failure or is protected from it then they are going to crumble one day in college when they do fail at something, but if they are raised to view failure as a learning opportunity so that you can be better then they will have a much better chance at turning negatives around in the future.
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First year college? You are wise beyond your years!
 
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evince said:
We have allowed our school system to be overrun with an intent to find and weed out losers, instead of a system designed to lift up every student and help each one find the strength to win. Remember drivers’ ed, when your teacher told you to keep your eyes on the road and not the ditch, because you will go where your vision is focused. We need to stop focusing on failure. We need to stop devoting mental energy on the fear of the “wrong moves” and focus on the right ones.

Most importantly, we need to work for and demand a world fit for humans. No, I don’t want a fuzzy world with no sharp edges in which no hard things ever happen. That’s not real. But we should demand a world in which young men and women don’t feel that failing a test or losing a sporting event is the figurative End of Their Life, and we should continue to demand a world in which men and women don’t feel they are in danger of being shot down because someone thought they made one wrong move.

We don’t need to demand a world that is all fluffy bunnies and rainbows, but it doesn’t seem too much to demand a world that doesn’t just grind up our children.


Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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