Concrete Angels...

So on my way to the University of Akron yesterday, I was stopped at a red light. A woman crossed the street in front of me with a stroller and a little boy following behind her. All of a sudden she turns around and smacks the little boy and yells at him to walk faster. That stuck with me. How can a mother hit her child like that and be so angry at him for something so meaningless as walking too slow. It's kept me thinking that there is so much abuse against children in the world. People are suffering, but children are really suffering. They get the short end of our misguidance. There seems to be no money to educate them, but we are sending 1 billion dollars a day to feed the war in the Middle East. Give a billion dollars to any school and their children will be educated. Give a billion dollars to war and many children will suffer and die. The state of the world seems so out of balance. Children are our future, if we want the world to be a better place, should we not teach our children and educate them to make changes and be descent people? When that woman smacked that little boy, that smack meant something to me. It made me realize our children are not a priority, and are widely mistreated by our government. Bush gave us No Child Left Behind, yet our schools have no money and children not only in the United States but all over the world are left far behind and forgotten in the face of greed and misguided beliefs. We need to stop taking away from our children and start giving them hope for a better world someday. If not now, when? These children are the ones who will reap our losses as their generation is sent further into debt than any generation before. Their earth will be hotter than ever before due to global warming, and the suffering of their people and animals will be deeper. It should be our responsibility to teach them and prepare them to be compassionate, educated, and heard. We ought to be raising standing, speaking, caring children so they may slow down the destruction of our planet, it's creatures, and the human race someday...