survivormom's Blog

I don't think that you posted in the wrong section. This is very sad,just to think how kids are today along with some parents who do not care. What does it take to protect our children????

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Nice poem by the way!

"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." SOCRATES 499 B.C.

So you see? Nothing much has changed in the last 2500 years! LOL

You know a few years back it was pushed that the parents will get in BIG trouble if they allow access to guns so that a child can get a hold of them.
Why I ask has this seemed to fizzle down, it is looked at as the kid was dumb for playing with it, they are, what is even dumber is why doesnt it seem to get to the bottom of how he got the gun, who left it out to get his hands on it. Why was the bullets not put elsewhere.

If parents of guns only look at this post and DO IT NOW, get rid of your guns, or put them in a safe, they are fairly cheap, and keep bullets in a seperate secure place, these things wouldn't happen as much as we see them happening.
The adults need to wake up and do the right thing, use your heads.
The kid should know this was not right also.
The parents if it was from this kids parents house should be in court to stand trial because they are just as guilty for murder even though they didn't pull the trigger.

I can just hear the parents now grieving, my baby, my baby, well DA.
It could of still been your baby had you woke up and got enough brains to put these weapons in a secure place.

Yes jigsgirl, this is why I homeschool my kids.
When the city decided to merge middle school with the elementary schools, I knew that was not good. You think they would of known better also.Kids these days do not have the chance to have kindergarten thru 6th grade before going to the next level in life which was then junior high. Teenage level.
Now these poor kids 5 6 7 8 years old are in contact with the older kids who are fighting, bringing knives and guns to school, beating up teachers, and you hear it almost every week it seems.
I am a single dad and I am going to keep my kids away from harm and the foolish school system that helped cause a lot of this younger aged mishaps by associating young minds with the older prankster minds.
I found it to be almost unsafe to send my kids to school not knowing if they may get shot when actually going there to learn. I would feel horrible to get them ready in the morning and send them and get a call theres been an accident.
I blame the school system and incompetant parents responsable and they both need to be held for the actions that were not protected to prevent such happenings.

Thanks jigsgirl comments appreciated.
It is a tough job, but as you and I, the kids get raised in a way that we knew it to be and we won't read about our kids in the newspapers or see them on tv in the news.
I also think almost every month what my kids will be living in, 20 years from now the way the world is going..
Things have changed so horribly in the past 20 years that if it does not have a turn around soon I would fear there may be no safe place to live, let alone what it will cost to live.
It's not only in Cleveland but you hear it in any school district in any suburb these days.
Homeschooling is not really hard, maybe at times frustrating, but the kids get a better education because I am able to help them where teachers just don't have the time with 25-30 others in a classroom,they are limited in time and have to move on weather the child understands or not.
They are safe here, and I save a ton of money on gas by not having to drive to the school 2 times a day to drop them off and pick them up, and lunch costs.
I just wished more kids was homeschooled that are innocent and like to learn, they could turn out to be outstanding people of the community and have less shattered lives from fears of going to school and witnessing all the events that take place there.
If I was to start all over again, I would do it the same way as I am now.

I have an idea.... for all us caring parents, lets just move to an island and get away from all the evil and raise our children the best way we know how. I'm sorry about the other day when I said I was angry with God jigsgirl! It's not God's fault and I know this. I was just really depressed the other day. A lot came falling down on me that day and it was abit much to handle. The loss of a dear friend and finding out my grandpa has the highest level of cancer in his bladder and trying to comfort both my son and my mother and feeling lost at the same time. I have been thinking lately and we blame these parents for not being parents and not caring, but what happens to the ones that are teaching them right and are caring and raising them to be the best we can and they still find danger? I am starting to believe it's the kids, Casey is right. They don't care in today's world like we did. They want to explore and impress their buddies. I think we can't always blame the parents, don't get me wrong, there are a lot of bad parents out there, but it seems (to me anyways)that it's the parents who do teach right from wrong are the ones losing our innocent children. Smoker, I am so very impressed with your parenting. I give you so much credit. It is really hard to raise children today and being a single parent is even harder. I just wish we could come up with an answer and save all the children.