Teach your children well
Children are the one part of humanity that I feel sympathy and compassion for. As the song below goes, they are born to love and taught to hate. They have so much potential in them--to be so great. And yet parents and siblings taint them with evil. They don't allow individual growth. They force them to mold into the image of everyone else, to not ask questions, to not be strange or different. Even more evil, is how they teach them to cuss and do drugs without even knowing it. If parents or syblings cuss or do drugs, children most likely will want to as well, since they look up to their elders and want to be like them.
The most innocent of children are the babies--the ones who haven't learned to talk yet, haven't learned to understand all the evil around them. They haven't learned the desire to be like anyone yet, or to act a certain way. They're just there, pure and sweet. As they get older, they pick up on things and decide who they want to be and how they want to act. Usually they decide this depending on how they see their parents, siblings, or friends act. Even if a parent tells their child not to do something, tis instinct to be curious and want to try it out for themselves. This happens with drugs a lot. I'm sure you've seen those commercials that say, "Talk; they'll listen. Parents: The Anti-Drug." Well, the DARE program has proved that talking doesn't help. It only increases curiosity, especially to those who are rebelious towards their parents, which most kids are, because they crave attention or have negative feelings towards their parents. What I believe works is prejudice. You see, a parent doesn't have to tell a child that a certain race is bad, yet racism forms. Why is that? Tis because the child sees how the parents and others treat those people of the certain race, and the child picks up on it, and figures they must be bad. So if parents do this with their kids in the toddler years when they learn to hold prejudices without question towards drugs and stuff, tis my hope that they will hold that prejudice for life, no matter what their friends do to convince them otherwise. That's my theory at least. Try it out. Whenever you see someone smoking or drinking alcohol or a person on T.V. cussing or doing drugs or anything else negative you don't want your child/sibling to be doing, insult the person bitterly under your breath (loud enough for the child to hear though). They will pick up on it, and think negatively about that behavior as well. Of course, you must also set the example by not cussing or doing drugs (alcohol and cigarettes included!), or else it will be a lost cause. . . . It should work especially well if the older sybling is setting this example, because kids look up to their older syblings more than they do their parents, since they can relate more to the other child. The sibling is the symbol of "cool" and the parent is the symbol of "authority." Most kids obey cool people rather than authority figures.
If the child is to ask why you don't like those certain evil do-ers, simply tell them the truth. Say something like, "They're not good people because they use idiodic language [cussing] and put poisons into their body [drugs]. They're like rats. They're about as dumb as rats too, don't you think?" lol
Hearing sad stuff about young kids always makes me cry. I'm crying right now typing this. ;_; I read a short story in my Literature class that was about rich girls being mean and teasing poor girls, and it made me cry. Songs like "Christmas Shoes" and "Shimmer" make me cry too. Tears welled in my eyes just from hearing my teacher tell us a (true) story about a student who was late everyday to school because she had to act in place of her mother to her younger siblings. I'm not a cruel person. If I seem that way, tis because I'm bitter to all the evil of the world, and I desperately want it to stop. I don't forgive easily, because I don't believe crimes should go unpunished; mean people shouldn't be forgiven. I hate humanity because of their cruelty and evil. Please don't let it continue, people. Treat children with love and care. A child is brought into the world to grow up and be happy, not to put poisons into their body that slowly kill them. This is not happiness. People who do drugs are not satisfied with their lives, and have to resort to those poisons to make them feel better about themselves. Tis not healthy and tisn't right. Nothing about evil is. If you don't care about children enough to consider my suggestions, don't have children. I'm serious. ;_;
"Shimmer" by Shawn Mullins
sharing with us what he knows
shining eyes are big and blue
and all around him water flows
this world to him is new
this world to him is new
to touch a face
to kiss a smile
new eyes see no race
the essence of a child
the essence
he's born to shimmer, he's born to shine
he's born to radiate
he's born to live, he's born to love
but we'll teach him not to hate
true love it is a rock
smoothed over by a stream
no ticking of a clock
truly measures what that means
truly measures what that means
and this thing they call our time
heard a brilliant woman say
she said you know it's crazy
how I want to try to capture mine
I think I love this woman's way
I think I love this woman's
way she shimmers, the way she shines
the way she radiates
the way she lives, the way she loves
the way she never hates
sometimes I think of all of this that can surround me
I know it all as being mine
but she kisses me and wraps herself around me
she gives me love, she gives me time
and I feel fine
I feel fine
but time I cannot change
so here's to looking back
you know I drink a whole bottle of my pride
and I toast to change
to keep these demons off my back
just get these demons off my back
cause I want to shimmer, I want to shine
I want to radiate
I want to live, I want to love
I want to try to learn not to hate
try not to hate
we're born to shimmer, we're born to shine
we're born to radiate
we're born to live, we're born to love
we're born to never hate
"The Christmas Shoes"
by Newsong
It was almost Christmas time, there I stood in another line
Tryin' to buy that last gift or two, not really in the Christmas mood
Standing right in front of me was a little boy waiting anxiously
Pacing 'round like little boys do
And in his hands he held a pair of shoes
His clothes were worn and old, he was dirty from head to toe
And when it came his time to pay
I couldn't believe what I heard him say
Chorus:
Sir, I want to buy these shoes for my Mama, please
It's Christmas Eve and these shoes are just her size
Could you hurry, sir, Daddy says there's not much time
You see she's been sick for quite a while
And I know these shoes would make her smile
And I want her to look beautiful if Mama meets Jesus tonight
He counted pennies for what seemed like years
Then the cashier said, "Son, there's not enough here"
He searched his pockets frantically
Then he turned and he looked at me
He said Mama made Christmas good at our house
Though most years she just did without
Tell me Sir, what am I going to do,
Somehow I've got to buy her these Christmas shoes
So I laid the money down, I just had to help him out
I'll never forget the look on his face when he said
Mama's gonna look so great
Sir, I want to buy these shoes for my Mama, please
It's Christmas Eve and these shoes are just her size
Could you hurry, sir, Daddy says there's not much time
You see she's been sick for quite a while
And I know these shoes would make her smile
And I want her to look beautiful if Mama meets Jesus tonight
Bridge:
I knew I'd caught a glimpse of heaven's love
As he thanked me and ran out
I knew that God had sent that little boy
To remind me just what Christmas is all about
Repeat Chorus
(The song playing isn't any of the above; tis "Cats in the Cradle" by Cat Stevens.)
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