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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (4381)	11/2/2000 9:43:49 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 10042

I can't help being a little bit angry about the children- but I direct my anger to the people who deserve it- the parents. I can tell, in a classroom, which parents have worked on developing kindness and empathy in their children, and which have not. And I don't mean which parents have actually thought about it, or made a decision to do this, but which parents, by their example and their ethics, are trying to raise kind people. I am angry at the parents who aren't. But I also understand they are the way they are because of their parents- it's a long and vicious cycle. Believe it or not, I think the schools are helping to break this cycle. Since schools are not able to use physical violence, and since they have become much more sensitive to verbal abuse, there is a great deal more intervention than when I was a child. In the school district we are in now (a different district from when my son was younger) there is zero tolerance for abuse- physical or verbal. And although there are still children who would clearly like to abuse my son, and who try to in small ways, they can't be very effective at it. The only really good time would be when he is at lunch or recess. And since I've learned to BE there at all unstructured times, they can't bother him then either. It's a real eye opener watching children all day. It gives me such a hoot when some people declare how sweet and innocent children are. Any sweetness comes from the example their parents set them. Ungoverned children, for whom a good example has never been set, are like small wild animals- amoral. And thanks for your prayers. He can have any God or Gods he wants if he wants one or several- same goes for all my children. But I'll never lie to him about what I believe- and he does ask what I believe.