posted on Feb, 3 2010 @ 11:19 AM
When I was a child I learned to read by the age of four, thanks in large part to Capitan Kangaroo. I was allowed to advance as I learned, not due to
age.
Today I homeschool so I know my child will get a good education. There are no political restrictions on what she can learn, or an agenda on how she
learns. She can go fast or slow. She is dyslexic so on some subjects she is a little less agressive with, and she stradles different grades.
I trust that as more children are homeschooled education will go back up.
But this is not all of what has happened to the American people. We stopped relying on each other, we want Government to fix everything and give us
everything. We have let the corporations take over our farms.
We make motherhood sound aweful and yet applaud day care workers. We applaud the destruction of the family for the coveted single life and the
irresponsible.
But it is not just one thing, it is the slow seeping ooze of so many things that have lead to such a dismal place. We have lost our civility even with
each other. We have stopped using common sense and thinking for ourselves.
Thanks to the internet you can now ask any expert how to do anything, and even if they are wrong, we listen because they are the experts. We stopped
looking to that place that has all the answers, the within of each of us, that place we were told to look first.
We gladly get on the Haiti bandwagon, while giving nothing to those in need in our own country. And I am not talking charities, but Charity, the act
of love. I know because I have gone to over 1800 charities and churches and been sent away with a "no we don't help individuals".
When i was younger I watched the giving and kindness of my parents and others to their neighbors no matter what. This lose is just a part of the
bigger issue. We just stopped caring about each other.
Today my daughter and I are homeless and I know I can get no help from any Amercian, so how can I ever feel we can save this great nation?