fundamental needs
well, there was another school shooting today. creepy how it was so similar to the one last week. how sad that three more school kids lost their lives. BUT... i'm not going to go on about this. i've written enough on the subject in the past few days and i should be able to find something else to write about.
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it amazes me how much teenagers are open to an adult's attention. if you were a normal adult without any kind of interaction with teens, you might think that kids don't want to have anything to do with adults. but in my experience, even those kids hiding within the hardest of shells wants to know that an adult cares about them. i would even go as far as to say that they "crave" the attention of an adult. there could be many reasons for this but the most likely is that they don't get any attention at home.
the world has changed a lot since i was a kid. and so has the family unit. i came from a broken family but even in the brokeness and thru the break-up of the family, i knew i was loved. i knew i was a priority. i knew i had atleast two adults who cared about me and would be there for me. for many kids today, that's not the way it is. again, there may be many reasons for this but the reality is that more and more kids aren't having one of their most fundamental needs met - feeling loved and cared for.
so if this is true, think about what a life of a young person looks like. think about what it would be like to be raised without having this need met. think about what kind of person you would be if it were you.
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it amazes me how much teenagers are open to an adult's attention. if you were a normal adult without any kind of interaction with teens, you might think that kids don't want to have anything to do with adults. but in my experience, even those kids hiding within the hardest of shells wants to know that an adult cares about them. i would even go as far as to say that they "crave" the attention of an adult. there could be many reasons for this but the most likely is that they don't get any attention at home.
the world has changed a lot since i was a kid. and so has the family unit. i came from a broken family but even in the brokeness and thru the break-up of the family, i knew i was loved. i knew i was a priority. i knew i had atleast two adults who cared about me and would be there for me. for many kids today, that's not the way it is. again, there may be many reasons for this but the reality is that more and more kids aren't having one of their most fundamental needs met - feeling loved and cared for.
so if this is true, think about what a life of a young person looks like. think about what it would be like to be raised without having this need met. think about what kind of person you would be if it were you.
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