Just wanted to step....

[turbotim]

up on a soap box....

This is from my blog.....

This all started because I was writing about teaching my son. When I said today, it was yesterday...



I have so many students who have IPODS, the latest cell phones with the data packages, and all kinds of stuff that I would never have that age especially it being my own and not all us brothers and sisters. Those same kids (YES, KIDS... immature, selfish kids) have written in notes to others, sent text to friends, and have even told me personally that they wanted to die. They wanted to just end it all.

This is sad... SAD people..... People who get everything they want just do not have enough... Yep.. Just today... TODAY folks, two new students told me that they wanted to end it all. I felt saddened and talked with them a while.

But it just goes to show PARENTS... giving your kids everything is NOT enough. You need to GET off your lazy tale and TEACH them about LIFE... YES, YOU... PARENTS.... We teachers have become more than teachers; we have to be disciplinarians, mentors, and so much more. We only have them 55 minutes a day. Some more and some less and that's if they come.... I did not have YOUR kid. You did... TEACH them.... I'm doing my best but it's not enough. We have a lot of kids. They don't really need all that stuff you buy on credit to have to work 3 jobs to pay for 3 years later for more than if you saved for it. THEY NEED you to teach them the lessons of life and to love them and to show them, and be THERE for them..

"THERE" means at home.. NOT at work, not at whereever... BUT at home WITH them.

Sorry just wanted to get that out. It's very frustrating....

[teach]

AMEN!!

There are so many kids that I teach that go through the exact same thing!

What is this world coming to?

wendy k

[Dr. Ron]

Thank you for your post.

I teach the Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training course for the state of Tennessee.

I personally believe that it should be mandatory for all teachers to go through this training. It is the training all military chaplains MUST take.

I would love to come to your area for a seminar. It is two full days and is the most widely known and accepted "INTERVENTION" program in the world.

For more information about this training.....

livingworks.com....

I applaud you for taking time with your students.....let me help you with a method that works wonders. I don't allow anyone to work in my youth department who has not taken this training. It is awesome.

God bless you and I hope you will look at this program. It is a great in-service training and carries 3 CEUs. We all have to have those!

[MacUser]

This is why my wife decided to stay home instead of going back to work.

These gifts from God are our responsibility to raise and nobody elses. We manage/edit everything in their life and sometimes, yes, CHURCH has more a negative impact that positive imho. We WAITED to have kids (over 10 years) so that we would be better prepared and settled.

So (my wife and I) have to be vigilant and constantly battle against the forces that want to impregnate and make an impression on them. We even pray for our teachers at night as they have a dominate roll in my children's development.

Example: My daughter gets UPSET at my wife because she DOESN'T stay in the car pool line.. but parks and walks into the school early to "see" what they are doing and gets them herself. My daughter wants to be treated like others and stand in line.. haha. I constantly retrain this thinking and tell her how blessed she is.

The world and it's negative forces will have at them the rest of their lives after they leave our nest. BUT UNTIL THEN.. we will do our best to pour into them and bless them as I have been.


Hopefully someday as a church.. we can stop internally fighting over unnecessary issues and see what Jesus does.

[Penny]

claps

[jessicacook]

I agree. Parents need to realize that they need to SHOW their kids love rather than try to BUY it. They will have much better kids that turn into better adults.

[PastorDaniel]

As a foster parent, raising 7 children that my wife did not birth....I say Amen to that. I get behind on school work, my career has suffered, but one thing doesn't get behind or suffer...and that's time with my kids!!