01-12-2004, 07:23 AM
I dont envey your job. not in the least bit. I know it has to take some kinda stamina in order to see that and wonder just what was going so bad in tha kids life that they needed artificial stimilation.
I know, I hear some times the kids are just looking for a good time. It breaks my heart regardless.
I remember my sith grade teacher telling the class that by the time we reached the age of 40 we would have 5 frends who had died from drugs and achohal. the
des part of that statement is I lost that many frends before I was even out of high school. 4 on one new years night. ages 16, 18, 19, 18. all closed caskets.
two weeks befor they died the subject came up about dieing, and how every one wanted to be remembered, and I remember telling them, dont go getting your selves killed, cause I dont have any thing to wear to your furneral. I attended 4 furnerals that day in a bright pink shirt cause that was all I had the wasnt ripped or torn.
some of the nicest church going kids you ever wanted to meat. no one would have ever thought...
ya know the hardest part is explaining to kids today that tomaro comes way to fast, and there are a good number of us who wont be here tomarow, and they are the ones who need to cary on the torch.
no one can explain the pain that is brought on to frends neibors family members when they are gone.
I have attempted for years to teach the kids to experiment with life and not drugs.
Using all my entrest and most of my funds to show the kids what is out there in this world, I put fishing poles in any kids hand I could. I have taken them skiing, I have put them in prades. taken them to orchards. help them to develop personal relational skills so they can comunitate openly with family and frends.
I tought my 4-H club members to venture out on their own. if they had an idea to share it with every one in the club. and that they did. you should have seen the project and outhings they come up with. one came up with a trip to annarbor to a sicnce musium. (couldnt get the kids to wanna leave...lol) we attended all sorts of movies. we studied plans as well because we had two vegitarians in the club. but they too even went on our fishing trips because they learned the importance in sharing lifes experiances. even if they did not agree with the life styles of others they would at least walk a mile in their shoes for their own benifit.
my rewards dont come in the form of treasures or funds. it comes from seeing my kids acheiving their hearts desires. one is becomming a lawyer, one is a construction worker, one is working as a cheff, one has become an international teacher and writes his own comic books that are published in 6 different languages, one has become a concert violinest right out of high school and paid her own way through collage. one has become a profecional cheer leader. one has become a nurce, one was nearly burried in the twin towers, one became a hero and saved another kids life from drowning in Ice cold water. one is a legal secritary (parileagle I thing she calls it) one is a vetrenarian.
me I wanted to do every thing. and through these kids I am. I have set forward in motion the best kids on the block in various feilds. all good hearted and true to the cause of humanity as a hole. they have respect for one another and respects eachers life's goals with an open mind and open hearts.
so by the time I was 40 I new 20 such frends who died from drugs and alcohal eather by ingesting it or being killed by some one who had. I hope a kid reads this post one day, I hope they can find some sence of it, I hope they see how much life has to offer even if things go sour for long periods of time. I hope that they gain the knolage of much they realy mean to one another even if they dont share the same religion, politics, life styles.
I remember as a kid, hearing the hippies and flower power folk talking about getting high on life. I thought ya light up another funny cigarett. one day I found my high in life. yes I love fishing, it is my lifes bread. the good lord blessed me with the nack of angling my dinner. but I found another high. Balloon Animals. for just a couple pennies I can light up the faces of children from 2 to 102. I treasure each
I have received. and in the good book that counts a real treasure. treasure I can count on for generations to come.
I hope one day when a kid reads this they too will find a natural high. they do exist. just open a heart open a mind and look and listen.
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I know, I hear some times the kids are just looking for a good time. It breaks my heart regardless.
I remember my sith grade teacher telling the class that by the time we reached the age of 40 we would have 5 frends who had died from drugs and achohal. the
des part of that statement is I lost that many frends before I was even out of high school. 4 on one new years night. ages 16, 18, 19, 18. all closed caskets. two weeks befor they died the subject came up about dieing, and how every one wanted to be remembered, and I remember telling them, dont go getting your selves killed, cause I dont have any thing to wear to your furneral. I attended 4 furnerals that day in a bright pink shirt cause that was all I had the wasnt ripped or torn.
some of the nicest church going kids you ever wanted to meat. no one would have ever thought...
ya know the hardest part is explaining to kids today that tomaro comes way to fast, and there are a good number of us who wont be here tomarow, and they are the ones who need to cary on the torch.
no one can explain the pain that is brought on to frends neibors family members when they are gone.
I have attempted for years to teach the kids to experiment with life and not drugs.
Using all my entrest and most of my funds to show the kids what is out there in this world, I put fishing poles in any kids hand I could. I have taken them skiing, I have put them in prades. taken them to orchards. help them to develop personal relational skills so they can comunitate openly with family and frends.
I tought my 4-H club members to venture out on their own. if they had an idea to share it with every one in the club. and that they did. you should have seen the project and outhings they come up with. one came up with a trip to annarbor to a sicnce musium. (couldnt get the kids to wanna leave...lol) we attended all sorts of movies. we studied plans as well because we had two vegitarians in the club. but they too even went on our fishing trips because they learned the importance in sharing lifes experiances. even if they did not agree with the life styles of others they would at least walk a mile in their shoes for their own benifit.
my rewards dont come in the form of treasures or funds. it comes from seeing my kids acheiving their hearts desires. one is becomming a lawyer, one is a construction worker, one is working as a cheff, one has become an international teacher and writes his own comic books that are published in 6 different languages, one has become a concert violinest right out of high school and paid her own way through collage. one has become a profecional cheer leader. one has become a nurce, one was nearly burried in the twin towers, one became a hero and saved another kids life from drowning in Ice cold water. one is a legal secritary (parileagle I thing she calls it) one is a vetrenarian.
me I wanted to do every thing. and through these kids I am. I have set forward in motion the best kids on the block in various feilds. all good hearted and true to the cause of humanity as a hole. they have respect for one another and respects eachers life's goals with an open mind and open hearts.
so by the time I was 40 I new 20 such frends who died from drugs and alcohal eather by ingesting it or being killed by some one who had. I hope a kid reads this post one day, I hope they can find some sence of it, I hope they see how much life has to offer even if things go sour for long periods of time. I hope that they gain the knolage of much they realy mean to one another even if they dont share the same religion, politics, life styles.
I remember as a kid, hearing the hippies and flower power folk talking about getting high on life. I thought ya light up another funny cigarett. one day I found my high in life. yes I love fishing, it is my lifes bread. the good lord blessed me with the nack of angling my dinner. but I found another high. Balloon Animals. for just a couple pennies I can light up the faces of children from 2 to 102. I treasure each
I have received. and in the good book that counts a real treasure. treasure I can count on for generations to come. I hope one day when a kid reads this they too will find a natural high. they do exist. just open a heart open a mind and look and listen.
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