When “educators” feel a study is needed to determine if bullying is wrong, and are now actively studying early sexual activity as a deterrent to teen delinquency, I feel our society is sometimes going to heck in the proverbial hand basket.”We got a very surprising finding, particularly that early sex seems to forecast less antisocial behavior a few years later, rather than more,” lead researcher Kathryn Paige Harden, a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Virginia, said in a prepared statement.

The argument continues that violence in video games and television has no influence on young people today, yet I still read about horrific acts committed by kids under age 12. If the activities of the body follow the thoughts of the mind, how hard is it to add one plus one?
Personally, I have long felt that after 911, society sort of had a mental breakdown. Grief of such unimaginable magnitude has to have had lasting effects on all of us, right?

Did you get counseling for how to make sense of it all? That’s assuming that any sense can be made of something that hurts beyond the core of your being.
If as adults, we struggle with the darkness of low self esteem, dysfunctions from our childhoods, learning to positively “self-talk” and avoid numbing out to life in general, where does that leave our kids?

It’s said that people can become conditioned to anything if exposed to it long enough. Hmmm. That gives cause for deeper consideration. As your resistance to negativity goes lower and lower, the level of acceptability and tolerance can sometimes go higher.

It’s hard to stay positive in today’s society, but what’s the consequence if everyone stops trying? I don’t even want to think about it. That’s why I can’t stop looking for the bright side of things no matter what’s happening in the world. And believe me, you don’t need me to tell you what’s going on. I’m sure it’s where you are too in some shape or form.

How do we raise kids to be positive in a world gone crazy? We’re only one person, what difference can we possibly make? I have to believe that strength is in the numbers. We can change things. If the mind attracts to it what it focuses on, what would happen if everyone stopped focusing on all the things we don’t want to happen in the world?

Random thoughts from a mom trying to figure stuff out. Let me hear your thoughts and ideas on how you help your children make decisions in todays social climate.