Failing SOL scores
Discouraged about what the future holds
Current economy - watching mothers and fathers fight to pay the bills
Murders of countless black teens in the streets.
Storms, wars, threats of wars, tsunami, hurricanes, earth quakes
Social media bullying, desensitizing of the emotional and psychological state of the mind sets.
Or worse, the 2016 Presidential race???
When I think about all the illnesses that plague our world, I think about the future
of our youth and equate the issues above to that of CANCER. Breaking down the inner spirits of our teens. Dream by dream, hope by hope - like cells. Working to destroy the fiber of our future.
How are we supposed to keep our youth on the right track? We often tell them, "it will be ok, we went through the same thing at their age". No we did not! We did not have social media or the live streaming of murder (not fiction - this is not Hawaii5-0). No, live and in color death, parents overdosing on heroin while their child sits in a car seat. How about the racial unrest. Sure, we had similar experiences, but the difference is we had parents that prepared us - that made us strong! Most youth today are now being raised by grandparents too old to relate to their struggle. Maybe they are being raised by a parent that is only 15 years older
than themselves.
