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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 626263" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>I think the kids forget their potentials. There are those who truly have no choice but to live as our children are living. Those people don't have parents like us, did not have the opportunities for education or the stable homelife our children did have.</p><p></p><p>According to difficult child daughter, there are people living on the streets who absolutely do not have a choice. They have no way out, no one to help them clean up, find work, make change of any kind. </p><p></p><p>Many of them are battling generations of a kind of prejudice most of us know nothing about. Having been taught who they were in a crueler time, there are parents and grandparents in our world who literally cannot see a better truth for their children. And yet...there are individuals who overcome even this, creating and laying claim to lives of virtue and value.</p><p></p><p>After a time, we could all forget we were better than our surroundings. We could all forget that we had the potential to believe differently and so, change the world as we find it. That is why I say it is important to put responsibility for who they will choose to be, for what they will and have and intend to create of their lives on the kids.</p><p></p><p>They need to make different choices.</p><p></p><p>One day, we will be gone. There will be no one then to remember they might have been clean, happy, well cared for.</p><p></p><p>They need to chose that now.</p><p></p><p>I don't know whether that will help the kids see and choose a better way.</p><p></p><p>But I would be remiss not to push for that. </p><p></p><p>I am working on learning to be okay with accepting that it is what it is.</p><p></p><p>But I don't like it, and I will never, ever like it.</p><p></p><p>Here's the thing. These kids have so much to offer the world. They were raised, for the most part, with enough support behind them to have become educated to the degree they were willing and able to take it. That they chose to follow this path instead is ~ I don't know. It seems almost criminal to me.</p><p></p><p>How many writers, how many scientists and inventors, how many researchers, physicians, ethical politicians are eking out an existence on the streets, instead?</p><p></p><p>Such a waste, so much pain.</p><p></p><p>Grrr....</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 626263, member: 17461"] I think the kids forget their potentials. There are those who truly have no choice but to live as our children are living. Those people don't have parents like us, did not have the opportunities for education or the stable homelife our children did have. According to difficult child daughter, there are people living on the streets who absolutely do not have a choice. They have no way out, no one to help them clean up, find work, make change of any kind. Many of them are battling generations of a kind of prejudice most of us know nothing about. Having been taught who they were in a crueler time, there are parents and grandparents in our world who literally cannot see a better truth for their children. And yet...there are individuals who overcome even this, creating and laying claim to lives of virtue and value. After a time, we could all forget we were better than our surroundings. We could all forget that we had the potential to believe differently and so, change the world as we find it. That is why I say it is important to put responsibility for who they will choose to be, for what they will and have and intend to create of their lives on the kids. They need to make different choices. One day, we will be gone. There will be no one then to remember they might have been clean, happy, well cared for. They need to chose that now. I don't know whether that will help the kids see and choose a better way. But I would be remiss not to push for that. I am working on learning to be okay with accepting that it is what it is. But I don't like it, and I will never, ever like it. Here's the thing. These kids have so much to offer the world. They were raised, for the most part, with enough support behind them to have become educated to the degree they were willing and able to take it. That they chose to follow this path instead is ~ I don't know. It seems almost criminal to me. How many writers, how many scientists and inventors, how many researchers, physicians, ethical politicians are eking out an existence on the streets, instead? Such a waste, so much pain. Grrr.... Cedar [/QUOTE]
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