The journey of child to young adult is very important. School-info4u.com would like to share with you its 'rite of passage'. This involves the process of build, sustain and preserve.
In the very near future things may look a little like this:
- The new curriculum in schools includes a personal development and parenting subject.
- We expect our young people to automatically behave in public because they do so at home.
- Black history is taught all year round.
- All teachers treat pupils with respect, and receive respect from them because they lead by example.
- Parent’s/carers and teachers, don’t curse or use bad language around young people.
- Young people don’t disrespect their elders.
- Young people actually get worried when a teacher says, ‘I am going to call home’.
- Self-respect replaces the gun as a weapon.
- Other people's opinion of our young people does not become their reality.
- Our young people realize that a pen, a book and a dream can actually take them places.
- Our young people don’t give up when they run into obstacles. They believe in themselves and their abilities.
- Our young people set their goals high, and don’t stop until they reach them. They don’t let people steal their dreams. They live the dream and make things happen.
- As parents and carers we opt to take action, rather than ‘bury our heads in the sand’ and our formula for success is self-respect, motivation, wisdom and optimism.
- The most important words in our vocabulary are:
It’s never too late.
How can I help?
I’m proud of you.
I was wrong.
I love you.
Thank you!
We.
Us.
- We encourage one another, rather than envy one another.
- We do our own research instead of believing ‘the hype’.
And last but not least:
- Our babies stop having babies.
- Mothers and fathers raise their children together and teach them the value of education.
- Our young men no longer get their education on how to treat females from their male friends and music videos.
- The role of the mother is finally acknowledged and she is given the respect that she deserves for raising the children of our community- often without the support of the father.
- Raising and educating our young people is now the responsibility of the whole community, not just parents/carers and teachers.
- The true sense of what community means is restored and its true purpose is rediscovered.
- We all live to see a new and improved generation.
Let’s dare to dream, because our dreams are rehearsals for our future. Instead of being people who are divided, let’s unite and get involved in our young people’s education.
‘When all is said and done, more is said than done’.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world
Like Gandhi, we also believe that people must be the change that they wish to see in the world. We can come together to make a change right now in our lifetime.
It’s time to stop wasting valuable time and energy talking about why things are the way they are, we need to begin to explore ways to make things better.
To solve our problems, three questions that we must ask ourselves are: ‘What can I do?’ ‘How can I do it?’ and ‘Who can I ask for help?’
Let’s acknowledge the power of unity and stop stepping on one another to get to the top. Too many people think that the only way that they can get ahead is by putting someone else down.
Let’s have common goals and reach for them together. Because together we stand, divided we fall. It may be an overused cliché but it’s so true.
We must love one another, support one another and encourage one another. Let’s be role models for our children.
We clearly haven’t solved our real problems yet, but once we do, we will start to prosper. We can achieve all that we want in life, but sometimes we are too busy living in the past.
We need to brush off the chip on our shoulder and stop eluding ourselves. The past is history; the future is a mystery but today is a present, so let’s receive it as a gift that we can all unwrap together.
‘If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record’.
‘Include the success of others in your dreams for your own success’.
Are you part of the solution or part of the problem?
We need to dedicate all off our time to finding solutions. Only positive actions will take us closer to our goal. Let’s stay focused on what we want to accomplish.
Let’s not talk. Let’s act! We’ve rehearsed the problems long enough now, its time to start ‘walking the walk’.
We can all move forward and progress if we look to one another for the answers. We have too much to loose if we don’t re-evaluate and make a change. We have to keep educating our young people, and ourselves.
Are you optimistic about the future? Is your cup half full or half empty? If it’s half-empty, what can you do to fill it up?
It’s about time that we got our act together. We need to start looking towards the future, because if we don’t, we won’t have one.
We might not have a say in where we begin, but we can have some influence on where we end up. We can control our own destinies. We need to respect ourselves as a race, and as individuals. We can start by valuing one another.
We need to take responsibility for our actions and ourselves. We must try to ensure that young people can benefit from education so that they have the opportunity to become successful.
If we can’t help ourselves then nobody is going to help us, so we need to act now. We can empower one another, our mistakes will teach us valuable lessons that we need to learn, our pride will allow us to hold our head up high and our faith will keep us standing.
‘What we do is nothing but a drop in the ocean, but if we didn’t do it, the ocean would be one drop less’.
Mother Teresa
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