This world is such a scary place to be in nowadays.
My heart breaks for our children.
They not only have to deal with bullies, or keeping up with the latest trends on social media, or carrying around book bags all day because lockers can’t be used and textbooks are not a thing but lab tops are, but also, and most importantly school shootings.
Not to mention, the fentanyl epidemic, where teenagers are overdosing and dying every single day.
THIS IS NOT OKAY. NONE OF IT.
What is it going to take to change? What is it going to take to stop this? Is it ever going to stop?
This is almost every parent’s worry in the United States right now.
Will it ever get any better?
There is no answer to this. Teachers don’t want to teach between the salary and the risks of dying in today’s world at school.
I truly think it starts with us. It starts with us parents.
To the parents who are speaking to their kids often about not bullying others, I salute you.
To the parents going through their child’s phones daily and making sure there is no bullying involved or threats being made, I salute you.
To the parents talking to their kids daily about how their day was, if anything bad happened, and just catching up on things going on in their lives, I salute you.
To the parents who see their child going through something because they are active in their lives and working towards finding solutions and answers and ways to help them, I salute you.
To the parents who do not promote violence, bullying, and gang activity in their house or lives, I salute you.
To the parents who report something when they see something, I salute you.
To the parents who encourage their children to speak up about bullying they witness or threats made, I salute you.
To the parents who keep guns they have for safety or hunting reasons, locked up and put away with no access to minors, I salute you.
You are making a difference.
To the parents who see their kids bullying others and do not give them proper repercussions, shame on you.
To the parents who let their kids do whatever they want, when they want, shame on you.
To the parents who do not give their kids any form of love and completely disregard their feelings and actions, shame on you.
To the parents who have found threats made to others from their children and have done nothing about it, shame on you.
To the parents who have weapons in the home and are not put away in a safe where absolutely no one other than them can access it, shame on you.
To the parents who give their child shooting lessons when they have made threats to others before, shame on you.
To the parents of a child who hurts animals or intentionally hurts others, and do not seek therapy, medication, or answers and guidance for their child, shame on you.
To the parents who completely disregards the feelings and safety of another child who has been threatened by your child, shame on you.
To the parents who promote guns and violence and gangs in their household blatantly in front of their own child, shame on you.
To the parents who do drugs or excessively drink in front of their child, neglecting them and not showing them the proper way of life, shame on you.
To the parents who have knowledge of a potential shooting or threat your child has made, but do not report it, shame on you.
You are a disgrace of a parent and you need to change because parents like you are affecting the rest of the world in an extremely negative impact every single day.
And I hope this post gets to you.
And I hope karma comes back to get you.
Remember that majority of the parents who have a child involved in a school shooting, end up behind bars and in prison themselves.
If you want that to be you, then by all means keep being the terrible parent you are.
But your kids deserve better. Our kids deserve better.
What is going on in the world today will not change from schools, or teachers, or principals or the police, it starts AT HOME. With us parents. With our children.
Til next time, from me to you.
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