posted on Oct, 14 2009 @ 11:37 AM
The only thing I can say to this is to teach your children differently, it starts in the home. My children have had the unfortunate or maybe fortunate
pleasure of seeing us time and time again working hard and lose everything and pick it all up again, they have had the fortune to be taught that
there's more to life than materialism, because many times we have had to do without, they have been taught to respect nature and their elders and to
be respectful of even their peers to the extent they will not pick on those with disabilities or those considered "Not popular" etc. They have been
fishing and taken to nature and been encouraged to learn about the world around them.Their questions were never meant with words of dismissal and if I
didn't know the answers I would look them up myself and this encouraged them to investigate the answers for themselves as well. In the end they will
get futher in life than the majority of the population of today's youth, and they will have compassion for those who were not taught how to live
well. It only takes one voice, yours...the rest of the world will follow in time, your friends will start using you as an example in turn, another of
their friend's will as well, and so on and so on.