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        I am back and feeling better >     Good Morning,           I am on
a  list for children born in 1986 and this was thrown out. Frankly, this
effects  all of our kids!!   >From: Alana  >You asked what our schools have
done about violence  in the past couple of
>>days. Alex (86) said the principal said (over the  intercom) that what
>>happened in Colorado was unfortunate and that they  hoped it didn't  happen
>>here.
>
>        More  importantly - what are you doing? What are you saying to  your
>children?
>
>        Children  exist years before the school starts and then in all the
>hours of the day  before and after school. They don't come out suspended
>animation go to school  and then re-suspend after 7th  period!
>
>        Everyone is looking to  "someone else" to solve the problems - the
>someone else is us! I  have no idea what was said at my daughter school as
>the day after was an all  off school chorus and orchestra concert. And the
>next was take your daughter  to work day. I would like to know what they are
>saying - more because   we over emphasis things and make our  children
>frightened.
>
>        Kids  take their cues from us - ever watch a real little one fall
>down and then  check your face for a reaction before they react. I have -
>when the Mom looks  horrified the kid starts crying and carring on. When my
>kid took a nose dive,  I would do a quick visual check and then laughed and
>picked her  - and  she would laugh to and be fine. So still today when stuff
>happens its no big  deal. We are giving the kids a signal when we make an
>incident a major  tragedy.
>
>        The news takes any  little item they can and blow it up and mostly
>the negative imaginary ones.  They get in their digs. I read in one article
>one of the girls had been a  Witch and only found religion recently and
>returned to fold of Christianity.  What on Earth did have to do anything? Who
>doesn't understand that Witchcraft  is a religion? Or that children who do
>their version of WitchCraft aren't  real followers of the the true Old
>Religion but are fascinated by the dark  side that Christainity has made and
>use as  propaganda.
>
>        I will talk with  my daughter - I will explain that those kids that
>did the shootings are sign  of our times. Times in which we allow everyone
>else to raise our children.  When we refuse to be the force of change
>because - its someone else job. The  time when big houses, fancy cars and
>having stuff - take presidence over  being home and baking cookies. When Mom
>and Dad are more into themselves then  the offspring they produced. When our
>teenagers want to have babies because  they want someone to love them. The
>problem is not with our children - its  with their adults. I will explain -
>that all the things people like to blame  stuff on - so they don't need look
>at themselves to hard - will once again  raise its head. She will need to
>extra careful - We are Pagan - In fact we  are Witches - One of the most
>amusing things that happens to me (I am a   Minister and Priestess)  is when
>I do stuff and people tell - What a  good Christian I am.  As tho there no
>other good people in the world.  So, we are subject to violent verbal
>attacks. She knows - that we are  "forbidden to harm" and that the threefold
>law - what ever you do  comes back to you in triplicate -  works.
>
>        And what are you going  to about this? Beyond shake your head and
>complain and look to more  government and state intervention. How involved
>are you in your school. Are  you on the PTA?  Do you chaperon events? Do you
>go to school events? Who  does your child come home to?  Do you know  their
>teachers?
>
>        I am on the  PTA, I chaperon the chorus, I go to Amber's school
>events, I am home >from  work ( albeit all of 5 minutes LOL) before Amber gets
>home. I have met all  her teachers. I am a single parent - I do work fulltime
>and Amber does have  to get herself off to school in the morning - her "Aunt"
>Cin lives  4 houses down. She gets up at 6:15 and is out of the house at
>7:00. One night  a week I take a class - I am working on a Master's degree.
>The other 6 nights  - I am home. Amber plays softball, she in Girl Scouts, I
>have her in  Religious Education class at the Universalist Unitarian we
>belong to. What am  I going to do about this? I am going to talk to the
>people at the school, and  I am going to start a Pagan Youth Group - Amber is
>at the end of 7th grade  and only one more of middle school then she to will
>be in HIgh School. As I  watched the children in Orchestra and Chorus
>preforming Wednesday - I tried  to imagine this happening at the high school
>here. You know - it didn't take  a big leap - I have been to the high school
>and seen the Police cars there. I  have a friend who is a teachers aid at one
>of the schools for the distrubtive  kids, and they are in and out of Juvy
>hall or jail if they are over 18. If  each and everyone of us doesn't make a
>commitment to put one of  "our" things aside and spend that time with our
>kids -
>they will be  lost. Children don't need fancy houses and cars and things -
>they need  us!
>
>                                       Brightest  Blessings
>                                            Trisha? Rev. Raynyng Angel
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