Wednesday September 20, 2006
Oh man...almost end of the month already...I cannot believe how quickly its flown by! 7.5 months! Yeehaw! The last couple days...well the last week or so has been nutzo! Poor Rodney has been so tired with work...but Im glad he is busy, he seemed so bored in Kingston! And! He is also being able to show leadership, which he really couldnt in Kingston. He worked with more civis than combats. The new job is so far doing alright! My coworkers are all very nice and extremely helpful. Im still trying to get a feel for selling clothes. I always try to put myself in their shoes - I dont want to be too pushy but I dont want to loose out on a sale. ARGH! I guess it will come with practice. I did have one good sell yesterday though! YAY me! And I cannot praise the discount enough! 50% So yesterday I bought a jacket and two shirts! I need a tank for under one of the shirts and I am on order to get a few things for Stace and my mom!
My feet have just been a killing...I found some nice ones at Sport Check but they didnt have a 7!!! So Im waiting for them to come in. :)
One a different note...my thoughts and prayers are with the students and staff at Dawson College...I cannot even imagine what last week (and even now) was like for them. School is supposed to be a safe place, especially in Canada let alone North America! I alsmot feel that the more we try to change other parts of the world...the worse our own gets. This shouldnt be a balancing act. As the middle east starts to improve, America shouldnt decline...but that is what seems to be happening! How can we help other countries when ours desperately needs help. I believe in helping those countries, especially now because so many innocent people believe in a better way of life but cannot challenge their goverment.
I was watching an interview with a rep from a security and he was saying that it is possible to put cameras and metal detectors at the entrances. Which IS a possibility....I cannot imainge my old high school having that...
I cannot remember who this woman was...Im sure she was on a board of education in PQ. She did make a good point that faculty and staff need to do their best to see warning signs to prevent things like this to happen. Great! Im all for prevention, but the older the person gets, the easier it is for that person to mask potentional signs and the harder it is to reach them.
If prevention is the answer, most of the work has to be in when kids are just starting out. Money and resources need to be in all levels of education...but building healthy kids is important. Fostering ways early on. Children need to be taught and SHOWN positive ways of releasing anger, dealing with difficult situations and how to communicate. Teachers need to be supported in today's educational system. They are extremely over worked and underpaid, but not only that. They have a very strict guildline of what to teach and how long to cram it into the students. There arent enough EA's or Tutors in the Classroom. The children are should be an extremely high priority....maybe even higher than the military. We, as a community and nation, are responsible for raising the next generation of soldiers...everything is linked together.
I am actually starting to see youth in my grandparents eyes, when they used to say "We didnt do things like that in our day" Of course not...99% of mothers stayed at home, which Im certain is one of the major reason we are loosing youth to crime, drugs and dropping out. How can a couple raise a child when they constantly tell the child(ren) "sorry I cant help you, Im busy with work or whatever the excuse is" Sure they raise a child...but with very low selfesteem, self-worth and almost zero self-respect which leads to not respcting others. Im certain that another reason children of the coming generation will be considered to be the lost generation is technology. Too many people are obsessed with sitting infront of a pc rather than reading to their kids, being involved with their school and/or community. Please can I raise my children inside the house all the time...just put the tv on and Ill play on the pc?!?!?!?
Its very evident in the military community...there are so many children, under 10, running around outside without parents or at least a teenager. Actually, outside my office window (across the street) there are 4 children jumping on a huge trampoline. Full props to the kids for being outside and being active, instead of plunking infront of the tv or a game system!!! At least two of these children arr under 6 and the oldest might be 11. Not exactly safe...and to make matters worse they are playing dodge ball on the trampoline. Im just really hoping that mom is watching them from the kitchen window!!!
It was like this in Kingston, when I took the girls to the Splash Pad...so many young kids without parental supervision. It's sad really...
Oh man...almost end of the month already...I cannot believe how quickly its flown by! 7.5 months! Yeehaw! The last couple days...well the last week or so has been nutzo! Poor Rodney has been so tired with work...but Im glad he is busy, he seemed so bored in Kingston! And! He is also being able to show leadership, which he really couldnt in Kingston. He worked with more civis than combats. The new job is so far doing alright! My coworkers are all very nice and extremely helpful. Im still trying to get a feel for selling clothes. I always try to put myself in their shoes - I dont want to be too pushy but I dont want to loose out on a sale. ARGH! I guess it will come with practice. I did have one good sell yesterday though! YAY me! And I cannot praise the discount enough! 50% So yesterday I bought a jacket and two shirts! I need a tank for under one of the shirts and I am on order to get a few things for Stace and my mom!
My feet have just been a killing...I found some nice ones at Sport Check but they didnt have a 7!!! So Im waiting for them to come in. :)
One a different note...my thoughts and prayers are with the students and staff at Dawson College...I cannot even imagine what last week (and even now) was like for them. School is supposed to be a safe place, especially in Canada let alone North America! I alsmot feel that the more we try to change other parts of the world...the worse our own gets. This shouldnt be a balancing act. As the middle east starts to improve, America shouldnt decline...but that is what seems to be happening! How can we help other countries when ours desperately needs help. I believe in helping those countries, especially now because so many innocent people believe in a better way of life but cannot challenge their goverment.
I was watching an interview with a rep from a security and he was saying that it is possible to put cameras and metal detectors at the entrances. Which IS a possibility....I cannot imainge my old high school having that...
I cannot remember who this woman was...Im sure she was on a board of education in PQ. She did make a good point that faculty and staff need to do their best to see warning signs to prevent things like this to happen. Great! Im all for prevention, but the older the person gets, the easier it is for that person to mask potentional signs and the harder it is to reach them.
If prevention is the answer, most of the work has to be in when kids are just starting out. Money and resources need to be in all levels of education...but building healthy kids is important. Fostering ways early on. Children need to be taught and SHOWN positive ways of releasing anger, dealing with difficult situations and how to communicate. Teachers need to be supported in today's educational system. They are extremely over worked and underpaid, but not only that. They have a very strict guildline of what to teach and how long to cram it into the students. There arent enough EA's or Tutors in the Classroom. The children are should be an extremely high priority....maybe even higher than the military. We, as a community and nation, are responsible for raising the next generation of soldiers...everything is linked together.
I am actually starting to see youth in my grandparents eyes, when they used to say "We didnt do things like that in our day" Of course not...99% of mothers stayed at home, which Im certain is one of the major reason we are loosing youth to crime, drugs and dropping out. How can a couple raise a child when they constantly tell the child(ren) "sorry I cant help you, Im busy with work or whatever the excuse is" Sure they raise a child...but with very low selfesteem, self-worth and almost zero self-respect which leads to not respcting others. Im certain that another reason children of the coming generation will be considered to be the lost generation is technology. Too many people are obsessed with sitting infront of a pc rather than reading to their kids, being involved with their school and/or community. Please can I raise my children inside the house all the time...just put the tv on and Ill play on the pc?!?!?!?
Its very evident in the military community...there are so many children, under 10, running around outside without parents or at least a teenager. Actually, outside my office window (across the street) there are 4 children jumping on a huge trampoline. Full props to the kids for being outside and being active, instead of plunking infront of the tv or a game system!!! At least two of these children arr under 6 and the oldest might be 11. Not exactly safe...and to make matters worse they are playing dodge ball on the trampoline. Im just really hoping that mom is watching them from the kitchen window!!!
It was like this in Kingston, when I took the girls to the Splash Pad...so many young kids without parental supervision. It's sad really...
posted by Amanda | 7:03 AM
11 Comments:
I totally agree with you about parents in todays society.
It seems like too many parents these days are just sitting their kids infront of the tv or the computer just so that they don't have to deal with them.
Parents also seem to lack the ability to discipline their children now. Too many times have I seen kids talk back to their parents or disrespect other people and their property.
I remember walking home one night after running errands and a group of kids were playing on an older married couple's yard. When the woman politely asked them to leave, they totally ignored her. The second time she asked them, one of the little girls (who was no more than 8) said to her "Fuck you, you aren't my mother". All I wanted to do at the point was to pick that little girl up and wash her mouth out with soap. It was disgusting.
I agree 100% that the reason there is so much crime is because no one pays attention to their kids. They crave attention in any form. They chose negative attention because it not only gets them the most attention from parents, but it also helps them fit in with their peers.
I honestly wish there were more after school programs for kids so that these kinds of things wouldn't happen.
I vow never to neglect my children the way that so many parents do now.
Thanks SO much for posting! You clearly have some views on some of the things going on in the world. Who are you?
Yes, I do have a lot of diffent views about a lot of different things.
I agree. More money should be spent on education and post-secondary education in this country. Maybe that will happen after the next election if we can get rid of Harper, a.k.a. Dubya's lackey.
Come on Anonymous! If you are going to post on my journal...please tell me who you are! Even a first name and where you live! I welcome comments and discussion - I just think its only fair to know who you are! Its all good!
I don't think you want me to do that. You may not welcome me after I tell you.
There are really only 2 people that I dont want posting on this blog and their names are Jeremy F and Kirt C. And from the way that you type...I dont think you are either of them. But if you are...please stop posting and stop reading.
I'm not either of them. You need not worry about that.
Alright...Ill take your word for it. So then, all other comments, discussion etc are welcome! Im assuming that we used to know each other. Veronica, Andrea or Justin?
Ah, you caught me! It's Andrea.
If you don't want me to read your journal, I won't.
I've been reading your blog for a while now. You don't need to worry about me leaving nasty comments in here. That's not my style.
Post a Comment
<< Home