Bully beatdown...kinda

[JERRY2KONE]

Yea that Richard kid looks like a little Hoodlum and obviously needs some dicipline in his life or he is going to end up in jail or dead because of his own attitude and character. I use to see a lot of kids like him in our juvenile system when I was one of them. Although I watched others closely and decided that the kind of life that I wanted for myself was much higher and still attainable in my teens. I changed my ways and steered clear of punks like him so as not to end up just like him.

In my years of education I have learned a few MOTOS' if you will that stuck with me over the years and also seemed to hold true for the most part.

The first was "Knowledge is power". If you go through your life being ignorant and uneducated your hopes of being anything more than an unemployed idiot were slim to none. Surround yourself with the smart kids and learn from them. Those are the kind of kids who end up like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet when they become adults.

The second one was about disapearing into your own environment. What I was told was to look at the kinds of people that I was surrounding myself with. If you hang out with Pot-heads, then that is more than likely what you will become. If you surround yourself with bully's then you will end up just like them. If you surround yourself with intelligent people you stand a fair chance of becoming much more than you ever expected. I found that for the post part this was true just by observing the various clicks in our schools, gangs, and social clubs.

If you want good things for yourself or your kids then surround yourself with the life you wish. The right kind of people, the right atmosphere goes a long way with what you learn and how you learn it. Speak with your kids as if you truly expect them to be successful, as it carries a lot of wieght with their own self esteem and confidence. Point out others who are going the wrong way in their lives and ask your kids what kind of life they wish to have as adults while refering them to imagine the wrong way to go about that task. They will learn what to do and what not to do with the examples you provide for them. Leadership by example is the strongest tool that I know of. It works. Most of all treat them with respect and humility and teach them to share that sentiment with others, and they will intern treat you with that same level of respect as they grow. This really is not rocket science, but we have to work at it if we expect anything good to come of our kids. They do absorb some things just by being with you, but you still have to explain things to them so they can begin to understand right from wrong and why it makes a difference to their lives.

This Richard kid obviously has not been privi to any of these tools of life.