Rant About Children

           I know the title might sound a little iffy but there is a point to it. There is also a point to this entry I am writing and it is not to better myself or anything along those lines. It just goes to show how passionate I am about the children in my life. In my almost 10 years of being in the childcare field, I have seen it all. All from rich families to poor families to families taking drugs. A friend of mine was ranting about how he saw a few boys on the dirt roads doing something that was worth hiding from everyone. Drugs, maybe? Doesn't know. And I am not saying that confronting them and thinking about it all day is not hard. I know for my friend, youth age really hits home for my friend so it could have been hard to see that especially around where my friend grew up.
            Now I will say growing up in one of the top meth capitals of central MO that would be no problem for me. I would have probably said something to them and then called the police with the info. I say that but would I really? I don't know and won't know until it happens to me. When it comes to children of any age and types, don't get me started in on that. I have a lot to say about children in every which way you might want it. I have worked with all kinds like I said from the start. Rich children just annoy me because they expect everything to be done for them but they know how to do it.
            Poor children and children from drugs just make me sad. I have now worked in two areas where parents either didn't care or was low income or where just one parent cared and not the other. Personally, I would rather work with the children longer that I didn't know their parents. I know some people are going to get on to me for writing this entry but it needs to be said. Children these days aren't getting what they have in the past and it bugs the living ______out of me and yes fill in the blank and it's right. Especially as a women who wants children of her own someday, it hurts even worse. It's not that I can't have them at all, the time just hasn't came for me.
           I know some women who had to adopt because they couldn't have children and if they work where I worked they were be heartbroken. I can give so many examples of parents not caring for their children that it is sick. When you have to go to work with that everyday, it does get hard at times. You do need strength, patience, and wisdom and a lot more other things from God. Sometimes I don't know how other workers get by a day if they don't believe in God because some days He is the only thing I am hanging on to at the end of the day.
          I will also start to say but not finish because I could be up another whole hour. Today's world is really messing our children up so bad that it is sad. I don't just mean the family way but also material things, environmental things, and anything else you can think of. Where did we get so of topic with these children? When did we not give a care anymore? When did we let them slide down by our sides? I am sure I would get answers having to do with one presidential campaign to another and how it ran the educational department but it isn't just about that. It is about us being human beings. We did we, as human beings, think that our children are less then things?
           We are going to lose the most valuable things/people we have if we are not careful even in the next few years. We are going to lose them because we are expecting way too much from them when they are little. That is another whole topic that I could rant on too. Sorry, my friend's rant kind of ramped me up on this topic. I already had a day today and the rant made it worse. You all reading this can blame my friend for this rant. LOL! Just kidding. Please don't. I usually don't get worked up about things but when it comes to children I do especially right now in this moment of my life because I can't have children yet.
          There will be another entry coming sometime in the next two weeks, if not this weekend, but that might be a little nicer then this one about how to treat a childcare worker because we take care of your children but we don't get the respect that we deserve.