Live, Learn, Teach

Life is hard. Whether you are an adult or not; whether you have kids or you are one, the fact remains that life is hard. Honestly it is meant to be so that we can learn the lessons we are supposed to. Personally I feel that we are meant to learn these lessons and then pass them on to the next generation. We continue to repeat past mistakes and we continue to struggle, but are we doing everything we can to make life a little easier. No! We are doing nothing to truly insure that they are going to be able to take care of things in the future. We are letting them run wild in the streets like we don’t care what happens to them. Now I’m sure that might sound a bit harsh since they are going to school and learning history, but we are not teaching them not to repeat it. And we aren’t exactly teaching them the whole truth, only what the government deems necessary for them to know. The rest is up to us. We need to stop letting superficial issues be the resting place of our conversations with our children. Get down deep to the nitty gritty parts of life. As much as reading, writing, and arithmetic are important so are life skills like self-esteem, how to deal with difficult situations, or how to be the best version of themselves that they can be.

School can’t teach them everything; something has to be done to help the schools. As it is they are overburdened, overworked, and underfunded. As parents struggling to survive in this economy we are going through the same thing. However it is our responsibility to prepare our children for their future. We need to prepare them for our future also, because who do you think is going to be taking care of us when we no longer can? They need us to show them the way, the right way! Most of us have very little time for ourselves let alone our children, but we need to find the time. Make the time. Make a time budget so that you will always have the time for your family. It is vital to the welfare of not only your child’s future but also the future of the world. You don’t know what kind of influence they will have or what they will do with it. Imagine for one moment that your child was elected President of the United States. What kind of President do you think they would be? Even if for some wild and crazy possibility they were elected President with the attitude they have today, what kind of President do you think they would really be? For some of us that is a scary thought. That is why we need to do the best we can to teach them to be the best version of themselves, because they could become anyone. Why not insure that the person they become is a person worthy of your child’s name. 

Right now as a whole our species is producing more waste than anything. We are overpopulating, over producing, and over polluting and in the process dragging ourselves deeper and deeper into this sad place of existence. We are starving in different places all over the world. We are murdering and raping each other every day in different places all over the world. We are homeless, we are sick, we are scared, and we are fighting for our lives every day all over the world. We are selfish, we are greedy, and we are full of hatred. We need to stop thinking with the “us/them” attitude and acting like spoiled children, because it is only teaching our children to be spoiled. We must learn to share with one another. We must learn that we are all connected to each other. We are all the same. Yes we are all different. But we are all the same. We all bleed the same blood, different blood types or not, it’s all the same. We are one. One species, just different breeds. We must start to see each other as true equals and as we would see ourselves and treat each other as such. Or we will continue to feel separated from everyone and everything and lost in a world of greed. Do you really want that kind of life for your children or your grandchildren? Or do you want them to be able to go through life with less difficulty than you did. One where they might actually have a chance to make a difference is a possibility if you teach them right.

This is where we learn from our mistakes and teach our children a better way to live. Teach them not to be afraid of life, but to take charge of it. Teach them how to handle difficult situations that way they don’t have to turn to drugs or alcohol. If you teach them that they are worth something, that their limitations are endless then they might believe it for themselves. These days we are truly our own worst enemy, because we have too much self-doubt, fear, and anger sitting inside of us. We are so full of all this negativity that it is no wonder our kids today have such low self-esteem and are going through such hell these days. They see how we are as their parents and they follow our example. We are not only their first teachers, but we should be their most influential ones. We need to teach them how to deal with bullies or how not to be one. We need to teach them how to handle money, so they don’t have to struggle later. We need to teach them about life after high school, because they look to us for life’s answers even if they don’t actually ask. So all you have to do is teach them right and lead by example. The best way to teach them how to be the best version of themselves is to be the best you that you can be. Lead by example.