Teach Your Children Well
What the Heck Are We Doing?
Trina L.C. Sonnenberg
You know, you can't turn on the television theses days, without being blasted with all of the gloom and doom of the year 2012. At least not on the channels I watch, like: The History Channel, Discovery Channel, and Science Channel, etc.. If the Mayans only knew what they were starting...
Trina L.C. Sonnenberg
You know, you can't turn on the television theses days, without being blasted with all of the gloom and doom of the year 2012. At least not on the channels I watch, like: The History Channel, Discovery Channel, and Science Channel, etc.. If the Mayans only knew what they were starting...
The thing that bothers me the most, when I hear people talking about the end of the world in 2012, is the impact it is having on our children. As adults who are preoccupied with the notion the the end is near, we are inadvertently teaching our children hopelessness. What do they have to look forward to? I mean really, I've heard teenagers talking, and they have a deep seated sense of why bother? We've set them up to die in two years! The rate of teen suicide has been sharply increasing each year since 2004. In 2004, the rate hit a fifteen year high; after being in decline through the 1990's. I am talking about kids between the ages of 15 and 24. That is shocking.
We should be teaching our children to have hope, dreams and positive expectations for the future. Our children tend to believe what we believe. Let me say that again: Children tend to believe what we belive. We are their role models. If we believe that the world will end soon, they will too.
I am going to have a party on December 21, 2012. My End of the World party will be to celebrate that so many were wrong. I truly think that humans live to be freaked out about something. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it's something.
To those who really believe that the world will come to an end in two years, I say this: Stop worrying about it and live each day as though it were actually your last. Do something! Live! Stop worrying about dying.
Life is short enough as it is. Quit borrowing trouble. Everybody is going to die some day.
Look at all of the negative things we've taught our children: racial hatred, social and religious intolerance, greed, etc.. Isn't it time we teach our children some positive things, like personal responsibility, love, and brotherhood?
They [our kids] are the future of the world, it is our job to make sure that there is a world to have a future in and to make it the best world possible. We do that through our children; by what we teach them and the values we bestow upon them.
Copyright © 2009
The Trii-Zine Ezine
About the Author:
Trina L.C. Sonnenberg
Publisher - The Trii-Zine Ezine - Your Trusted Source for Internet Business and Marketing Information. EST 2001. ISSN# 1555-2276
Author of: My Journey A Lifetime of Verse, ISBN: 978-0-61516405-2
We should be teaching our children to have hope, dreams and positive expectations for the future. Our children tend to believe what we believe. Let me say that again: Children tend to believe what we belive. We are their role models. If we believe that the world will end soon, they will too.
I am going to have a party on December 21, 2012. My End of the World party will be to celebrate that so many were wrong. I truly think that humans live to be freaked out about something. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it's something.
To those who really believe that the world will come to an end in two years, I say this: Stop worrying about it and live each day as though it were actually your last. Do something! Live! Stop worrying about dying.
Life is short enough as it is. Quit borrowing trouble. Everybody is going to die some day.
Look at all of the negative things we've taught our children: racial hatred, social and religious intolerance, greed, etc.. Isn't it time we teach our children some positive things, like personal responsibility, love, and brotherhood?
They [our kids] are the future of the world, it is our job to make sure that there is a world to have a future in and to make it the best world possible. We do that through our children; by what we teach them and the values we bestow upon them.
Copyright © 2009
The Trii-Zine Ezine
About the Author:
Trina L.C. Sonnenberg
Publisher - The Trii-Zine Ezine - Your Trusted Source for Internet Business and Marketing Information. EST 2001. ISSN# 1555-2276
Author of: My Journey A Lifetime of Verse, ISBN: 978-0-61516405-2
Comments
Your are so right on the prize here.
Those TV producers of doom are only thinking of the big buck they can make today and are totally oblivious about what kind of impact this has on the young ones. Thank you so much for this post. Great insight and well done needed point here.
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