I sure got you on that soap box didn't I. You go girl.

I do vote. I haven't figured out who I will vote for but I have figured out who I won't. LOL

I get on that soap box all of the time. I think I sent you a copy of the email I just got from the Senator of Co. He actually wrote back to me. I won't go into what it was about here but I have become a fighter.

I see such ignorance around here in people who are in authorative positions. Again, I believe it goes back to book sense and no common sense. Daddy always said you had to have both.

You are right, it is up to the parents to teach their kids right from wrong. Unfortuntely around here I see so many parents so involved in work and their fun that they just throw their kids out to fend for themselves.

My caregiver was talking yesterday about what generation started the change. She is in her late 30's or early 40's and she said it was her generation. They came along in the hippy, drug, and don't care generation. I won't lie my daughter never did drugs but I see some of those don't care qualities in her. She is getting better but it's took her a long time. When both parents have to work it's as if our kids become latchkey and raise yourself kids.

I think in Susan's case, where I was really strict with her she is doing that thing called" I'm not going to be like my Mother thing." LOL Now she is seeing it didn't work. You have to know where you kids are at all times, not thinking you know. Another thing she won't stand up to these people in school and I will. At first it bothered her that I did, now she is ok with it. We have to stand up for what we know is right.

Then we have these idiots in the schools that want to be control freeks as someone said and don't even know right from wrong themselves. They just think what they think is right, no one else is. I think they have the ideal that they have the last say over our kids anymore. Well they don't, in my book.

As far as the colors, what happens when the gangs are wearing every color out there, then what? Same with religion, red, green, what colors come next associated with religion. I would say they all do in some form of religion.

MMoran, Dustin was taken to the office on the last day of school for protecting a little girl in the 6th grade that this 8th grade boy was actually going to beat up. A teacher took him in and the Asst. Principal said she would have done the same thing he did.

I agree on the coldness that is being brought into this world. I still hug my boys and kiss them on the cheek and I encourage them to treat people good. Devin as I said, is my hugger. He walked up to a little girl that's in his 7th grade class in Carls. Jr. and gave her a quick hug. Her Mom just smiled at me and went on. It's the schools making matters worse.

Ada