The Pandemic/What the children see.

Kids hear and see everything! If you have ever tried to plan a surprise party, have a private/adult conversation or hide a gift from one of your children, then you know what I mean. However, it’s not what they are hearing from the news media that will have an impact on their lives, it’s how they see us react to that news. Fear of the unknown, chaos created by misinformation, the uncertainty of tomorrow, and the lack of normalcy should not be happening. As it is now, suicide, alcoholism, child abuse, depression and crime have all skyrocketed in the past year. Now we are having to endure the constant stress over possibly losing our basic human rights forever, and it’s pushing everyone to their limits. What about the children? They look up to adults. We tell them not to be afraid of thunder, the dark or bad dreams because we will protect them. We tell them not to be intimidated or bossed around by a bully. We say “Stand up for yourself. Don’t let bullies take things that belong to you.” But what are we saying now? We need to think about the life altering affect our decisions, in this moment, will have on our children, because we as adults are setting the example. What does it say when kids see us being bullied and doing nothing about it? What kind of example is shown when we are letting those bullies take away what belongs to us? Our jobs, our schools, our bodies and our freedoms, belong to us! For generations it has been important for children, as future leaders, to understand the ideals of government as it is outlined in our Constitution. What ideals are we instilling when they see that we are allowing those in government, who work for us, to be our rulers? If we do not stand up for ourselves, and our freedoms, we are setting the example for our children that it is ok for Our Country to be ran by dictatorship. They will see that the Constitution means nothing, and that ‘We the People’ are weak and do not care about freedom. We are saying to them that it’s ok to be bullied into doing something you don’t believe you should do. I guess we are saying that they(children) do not need to worry about having common sense or good decision-making skills because in the future all of their decisions will be made for them. Our children are learning from us every moment of every day. We should do everything in our power not to let them down, or the choices we make now could be the last choice we ever have the freedom to make.

The Constitution states that THE POWER IS IN THE PEOPLE, NOT IN THE GOVERNMENT.