What Adam & Eve's Children Have in Common With Yours

In light of all the negative press those in professions and positions of trust receive in our modern live, I found it so easy to say about some of these occupations, “Yes, but you can’t even trust them these days.”

How awful that we should even think that way, but if we were honest, we’d have to admit that we do. And once we start thinking that way, it is so easy to say, “What’s the use – there’s no hope for this world. It’s getting worse and worse.” I can’t deny that.

But today I realized that the same basic instincts the Creator put into the first man and woman and their offspring, all else being equal (that is, assuming the mother has not impacted her body negatively with drugs), He still puts into every little baby born today. To me this means that every child still has the chance to have moral principles, to listen to his/her conscience and to both recognize good from bad and to act on that knowledge. What he/she needs are role models to guide him/her in learning these behaviors. Will you be that person for someone today? There is still hope for each of us individually. – Murrells Inlet, S.C.

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THE KIDS IN THE HALL ARE AT IT AGAIN.

 Teachers Working To Rule May As Well Be Kids

Recently one of Canada’s national papers, the Globe and Mail, reported on (January 21, 2013) how Ontario teachers are being pressured by peers not to volunteer in any extra-curricular activities.  So I thought you might enjoy a little fictional variation of the story with some editorial prerogative thrown in.   Here goes . . . you’ll get the point I’m sure.  But will those for whom it’s intended.

Some Ontario elementary and high school students are breaking ranks and resuming their participation in school sports teams and clubs, but the kids say it’s not easy when other kids start bullying them because of it.

These kids are saying that we want our parents to get good value for their education tax dollars and so they’re participating in these extra-curricular activities again.  However, the majority of the kids are thankful that they don’t have to.

The “no we won’t play” kids are finding ways to send the “we want to play” kids threatening emails, putting evil notes in their lockers in the high schools, and sticking hand-written notes in their lunch bags in the elementary schools.  They’re threatening to shun them, of all things.  And if that’s not enough, they have found ways to encourage other kids to squeal on them if they catch anyone participating in any such events at recess, lunchtime or after school.  Hey, I thought we were trying to learn how to be accepting of others’ opinions and their rights.  I thought we were trying to end bullying, even punish it.  I thought we all agreed that extra-curricular activities are central a young person’s well-rounded education.    

In one school, some kids took the threat so seriously that they cancelled going on an overnight trip and the poor teachers were left to go on it alone with the very unhappy parent volunteers.  How awful.  The “I won’t play kids” are just hell-bent on punishing the teachers as a way of getting at those nasty boards and parents who put them up to such terrible things as clubs and teams and tournaments and boring trips on the kids’ otherwise ‘free time’ to “chat on my iPhone”.

But one kid who is hoping to graduate this year seems to have the most guts.  He’s one of the “you bet, I’ll play” kids and he has this to say, “Look parents and boards – this is my own free time we’re talking about here.  And I’m the boss of me on my own free time.  Mom and Dad, you cannot force me to participate if I didn’t want to because what good will that do? – I would just be a failure and you’d suffer socially.  And the boards can’t make me not participate because they would seem like a loser board if they didn’t have these activities.  So, I want to, and I am.”   Good for you, young man.  If things get worse, we’ll call in the OPP and the premier can call on the Armed Forces to protect you from your bully classmates as well as those mean parents and boards, and if necessary clear the snow in the schoolyard.

Now if only teachers felt that way instead of acting like children, bullying each other because some of them choose to do the right thing and stop punishing the students over something they have no control about.   What is encouraging, though, is that the kids are growing up in spite of the bad example some (not all) teachers are setting.  Sorry teachers, you’re loosing big-time on this one each and every day you act like this.

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Helping Your Children Think About Ethics

First we need to want to do this. Then we could use all the help we can get. But never under-estimate the power of an ethically-minded and ethically-acting parental role model.

Author Q&A: Wrestling with what's right | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram

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Here's What We Have to Look Forward To: Iran as Role Model

So, this is what Iran thinks of itself -- especially right now. And many are buying it -- including many in the West. We need to be aware of their intentions and what we have to look forward to.

Fars News Agency :: Supreme Leader Terms Iran's Progress Role Model for Other Nations

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