The_Future's Blog

Well 1st of all I would say there should be some programs where kids not only go to as a day care but a program of teaching and real life situation classes. This will prepare them for the "What If's?" That will give children a real life option not just what they hear or see on T.V.!!

Future,
That's what I've been saying for a while now.
There is a program that we can have here if we get enough people involved, it takes four consecutive days. It works. It is 90% effective as quoted and actually, I have experienced that it is 100% effective, but, people don't believe that so you say 90%.
It isn't free and it will take some work to get it here, but, it works. Taking the cheap way out as we do here as a matter of course, wil yeild familiar results = failure.

Please do not forget the old African adage, "That it takes a village to raise a child." This has long been the manner in which we operated our communities. It worked fifty years ago and it could work today. It appears that too many people are becoming too selfish. There is no more commitments to the betterment of the community. We have picked up on everyone else's culture and forsaken our own. That is why, we continue to fail to reach our children. Bubbah is right, we as a people have failed to seek funding and financial resources to create the type of social and economic programs to bring stability in the community. In the elite community they have association to overlook the development of their community; however, our community and our children are going to waste for lack of funding. Parents are just a small part of our problems because there has always been absentee parents in our community. Keep inquiring and God will lead you to the answer.

The scriptures reads "Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it." If your child goes out and commit a crime they are not going to blame your community they will blame you as the parent. Your child is your responsibility not the communities. The community did not make the decision to have a child YOU (the parent did)! I feel the community can help enforce some of your rules. Parents spend more time with their children then its community. At least they are suppose to! When I was coming up my mother did not quote unquote have the help of the community. All of her kids are doing fine and they have not been in jail. We are all productive citizens, and it was not because of a village teaching us it was because we had a strong mother who gave us guidance, leadership and wisdom. She carried herself in a lady like manner at all times. She made sure we were active in our church. She is and was a great example. Parents need to be better examples for their children these new millennium parents do not want any responsibility. I feel they should be held more accountable not the community. As a member of my community I don’t mind pitching in but without the parents help, the community will get no place. Parents first!

I agree with you 100% Irishoaks!

Future, I like the idea, but, there are way too many for that to be effective in memphis, the program I'm talking about addresses 50 to 350 at a time, it can actually address thousands at a time but it is designed to operate at around 250- 350. It is extrememly effective and we need to put it in to place, then "each one reach one" will work even better and you will see thousands stepping up to the plate and being succesful at it.

I'm working on something right now with a stellar group, it should work on giant swathes at a time.

Maybe if we stopped thinking in terms of skin color based paradigms, even though right now there would be more of one color here getting support, and thought in terms of human beings in our region community, things would begin to tilt a different direction, not toward one, but toward all.
Water on an unlevel surface runs off the edge.

I agree it takes a village to raise a child but some of the people in the villages are dope dealers and gangbangers. We need to rid our city of these undesirables and maybe we would have a chance to reach the youth of today. We can't reach them when their brains are so doped they can't understand or stand us as elder's.

You won't get the ones who don't want to show up if it's voluntary, probably won't get the ones who will recieve the greatest benefit from it either, you'll get the choir.
If you institutionalize the training you'll get everyone and it won't take so long to get it finished. It will also shorten the amount of wasted time in the classroooms and brush up time.
When people have all their little BS handled, their minds are free to design a new future. If they haven't got those things handled they are distracted, upset, depressed, tired, sick, demotivated, failures, basicly the national description of the Memphis work force, but, what should they expect, Memphians under a certain income level are oppressed in this fashion.
It is cruel.

Hear Hear Irishoaks!! That is exactly what I am talking about!