Talks we must have…

It’s sad that parents must have these talks. (WE) as parents need to start from the womb, teaching our children to have self worth, to respect the human race, to stop judging books by the cover, to end racism and violence, stop bullying and social prejudices and to utilize education to know and understand their rights, and this huge beautiful world around them. Most importantly (WE) need to teach our children by example, (WE) need to teach them that they have options to behavior and negative thoughts that they sadly see everyday in our communities as we sit silently out of our own passiveness, lack of knowledge, and fear and low self worth. Just as (WE) teach our children to love themselves and each other, share, value their culture, become productive, our actions words and deeds or lack thereof, can teach them hate, anger, and selfishness, disrespect, and low self worth.

(WE) must lead by example. In every moment we are blessed to have our children. (WE) need to stand up, and take our place in the ranks against those very injustices we are trying to protect them from! (WE) must be the change we want to see in order for it to reflect in our children.

Tell our children it’s wrong to racial profile yet racial comments and jokes come out our mouth’s about the people in our own communities, teach our children respect and have so little of it ourselves, Tell our children to go to school with the same mouth that brags “I only went to 11th grade”, tell our children they can be whatever they want to be but never make a move to show them that you can too. Tell our kids not to be selfish, yet you can’t even remember the last time you helped someone else.

We cannot expect the next person to do anything we ourselves wont do, and from experience it’s a rare person who exceeds the expectations, most people will only rise to what’s expected of them by examples that they have.

Expect more, project more, protect more, and (WE) will see more positive and beautiful behavior in this world. Maybe these kind of conversations can stop. Just saying-