You know when children are out there shooting other children, we are becoming lost to ourselves. I know it does no good for each of us to blame the other for we are all to blame. But now it's my turn to do the blaming.
             We need to stand back and take a cold hard look at what our world is becoming and say to each other "enough".
             We need to go back to the basics. It is in the music that we listen to, the movies and videos that we watch. It's in the lack of discipline that surrounds us each and every day, when there is no punishment meted out for behaviour that is unacceptable. How could there be when we see adults behaving in the same manner and believe that this is the way it should be. We use drugs because they see adults using drugs. We practice hatred because we see adults hating and I believe that the youth of today feel that there is no future for them. How could there be when we look all about us at the madness that cannot be explained rationally.
             A godless society that won't allow a child the right to pray in his environment, his school. Teachers that are afraid to speak out when behaviour is inappropriate for fear of reprimand to themselves. Parents that have abdicated their authority to the television set or the computer and never check to see if what their children are watching is appropriate because they are either too busy or too uncaring to do that checking. So many parents are so busy out in the world trying to make the almighty 'dollar' so that they can afford to buy more and more things. The expensive shoes and sports jackets, the latest in electronic equipment and mostly under the guise of wanting to give their children more than they had. But in fact we are giving them less and loosing them in the bargain. Yes, it takes hard work to acquire these "things". But wouldn't it be better to have less "things" and give more time to the youth.
             Read to them as babies, love them. Play with
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