Hi again,
I wasn't planning to post again so soon but couldn't stop thinking about
what I saw on the news yesterday and is now everywhere I look on Facebook.
The sad part is, it is happening all the time and not just too young
people. I love this age but it causes
problems that didn't exist a few years ago. It was bad enough than when
information couldn't be passed around the world in a few seconds.
Today kids are learning how to use cell phones and computers before
they are really taught the damage they can do.
All the time on the news we see things kids have done, fights at school
and away from school, sex-ting, videos of things most of us older people wouldn't even think of doing and not just stupid stunts.
There are a lot of young people (and adults) who believe they can do
or say whatever they want without fear of repercussions, or all they will get
is a slap on the wrist. Once it is done
on the internet it really can’t be undone, someone somewhere has the information. I am sure there are many out there that probably
wish they hadn't done something, or told some terrible thing about someone
after the fact but too late to stop what has been set in motion.
The sad part is most “grown-ups” don’t believe this could happen to
them or their children. It only happens
to people who live “bad” life styles or my kids know better than that. Or they are just having fun or joking. “Kids will be kids” is very common too.
Kids today are under so much pressure, for example how they
look, how much money they have, if they even have a cell phone or laptop. How long they can stay out or who parents are
the coolest, who allows their kids to stay out the latest or go and do things
without supervision. Who has a
girlfriend/boyfriend? How far have they
gone sexually? Do well in school or you will not get into I good college, get a
good job. There is a list so long it isn’t
funny. A lot of the pressures we
remember from our teens but they effect younger children now.
Kids are very smart, learn fast but they do not have the all the knowledge
or restraint to use a lot of the tools available to them (not just kids some
adults as well).
Peer pressure can destroy a young person “everyone is doing it, I will
not show it to anyone else”, in fact in can destroy an adult as well.
We have to teach children that what you do and say can affect the rest
of your life.
We have to teach them not to treat others like they are nothing.
We have to teach them “To do unto others what you wish unto you”.
As you probably already guessed what I heard on the news “Amanda Todd’s
Death”
Amanda's Video
That shows exactly what I am talking about. She made a mistake. We all do.
What happened to protecting her, stopping the original bully-
blackmailer? And the other kids at the
first school?
Is this what we want to teach them, that if you make a mistake
everyone has the right to treat you like crap?
What happened to understanding?
Learn from others mistakes?
They say there are laws in place to stop bullying in any form. Where are they?
Say you stop a bully in school, what happens when he/she isn't a
school? It is amazing what you see when
you look around you. How many kids do
you know who are bothered in or out of school? Things
taken or destroyed? Threatened? Or they go home and on their computer the
harassment is continued there? Are they being
punished?
Sure some of these bullys turn into wonderful adults because they
learned young that what they were doing was wrong.
But the rest turn into adults with the
knowledge of how to get around the laws.
And you can be sure they are going after adults, not children
hopefully. Bullying is a crime that
never really stops and can turn into far more serious crimes.
I just hope that people will realize that something has to be done and actually do something about it. Young people are our future! They will be making/changing our laws. They will decide what our world will be like. Don't we want a future of peace and understanding? A safe world?
Well that is my opinion and I just needed to get it out there. Maybe get people to look around; we need to protect our future!
Thanks for listening,
A
that was beautiful and very well put.
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