Wednesday, March 25, 2009
A Bit Of Excitment At Work
And it wasn't the good kind! Our County truck that is parked outside our office was vandalized on Monday night! The side mirrors were broken out and the holders destroyed. Then the offenders took a fire extinguisher and sprayed the entire truck with it. We got off easy with just those few things as there have been a rash of more serious incidents going on all over town. A few weeks back several vehicles parked at the high school parking lot were vandalized...some had all of the windows broken out of them and their tires slashed! What ever possesses a youth or youths to do such horrid things? Is it boredom, anger, lack of parental supervision...what! Do they think they will never be caught? The night our truck was vandalized, they also hit several others....and were caught by the police. Do we place blame solely on the youth or do we blame the parents as well? What are the youth of today thinking...or not thinking? They don't care about themselves, their communities, their country or their world! And they certainly don't care how their actions affect others! A shame indeed to see the lack of concern in today's youth!
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I am a firm believer in parents taking an active roll in their childrens raising, and sadly not alot do anymore. I see more and more kids with parents who just don't seem to care if their children grow up with manners and knowing what's right and wrong. Kids today are looking for any attentions they can get and unfortunately even bad attention. Makes me sad. Maybe with some supervision one of those kids might have grown up to do something really amazing and now is stuck in a unfullfilled life, and doesn't even know it.
I wish we could come up with the exact reason--this entitlement and anger in these kids is like a big ugly cloud that only seems to be getting bigger. I think the family unit is under attack and nothing good can come from that. I too am sorry you had to witness that--
Bummer, I'm so sorry about the terrible 'excitement' you experienced. It must have shaken your safety and trust, too.
I think a large part of what is going on with trouble seeking kids is that families aren't raising their own kids.
They send them off to public schools to be raised by other adults and kids the same age. They are exposed to morals and experiences that most loving responsible parents would never allow, if they even knew what was going on.
Peer pressure is so great and powerful and that is one of the biggest problems.
At a time when kids should be focused on their education and learning about the bigger world and how they fit into it, they are instead crammed into a public institution for 8-10 hours a day, frustrated, bored, angry and ripe for bad influences to move them into trouble.
Then the kids come home to empty houses because both parents work. The kids are full of pent up energy, frustration, boredom and lonliness with no caring, loving adult to talk to. So the kids look to their peers to meet that need.
Those same peers that are going through the same things themselves and aren't able to help anyone else because they can't even help themselves.
I find it interesting when parents choose to stay home when their children are small but then go back to work when their kids are older. If you think about it, the time that kids need adults the most is when they are a few years away from their own adulthood and independance.
They need loving guidance, someone to go to and discuss things they experience each day, a shoulder to cry on, kind words of advice and just someone who loves them unconditionally to listen. Someone to help prepare them for their futures.
Parents can't expect kids to get all of that from public school teachers, guidance counselors or their own peers.
~Lisa
Bummer...we don't have alot of problems with naughty youth in our small town...it only takes a couple though to start trouble.
No one needs that kind of excitement!
Sorry to hear of this. Yes, its difficult to fathom the reasoning of the young perpitrators. I'm so glad to hear they were caught, though. That is a blessing. There's been cemetery vandalism in Waterloo lately....I don't understand why kids do that, either!!
A "juvenile" around here went on a rampage one Saturday night and slashed 19 car tires! Including ours! Any car that was parked on the street was hit. It cost me $175 to buy 2 new tires for my car! NO followup from police. I guess they never got the kid.
OH My....you don't want to get me going on this one!
I could rant for hours!
It's scary to think about WHO will be taking charge,(of the world, the country, humanity) when I'm too old to have a say.
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