Once upon a time, I was afraid. I had been hit and I was very afraid that I would always be hurt when I got close to anyone. But today I feel less fear. Now I want to teach my children how to live in a world that feeds fear from the first breath. If you go to a high school in down town there is a very good chance you will have to walk through a metal detector to get to your classes. Every month there is another story where a school has been shot through. The news is full of vicious dogs who eat small children. Police officers who randomly race through crowds stomping people, shooting "innocent" bystanders.
This life is the most fearful life we live.
How do you stop the fear? How do you get your children to step outside of the fear and learn to behave with courage, and joy.
It is not an easy thing to do. The first thing we teach our children is no, things hurt. They learn things hurt, so they don't do little things. Then they learn about the bad people, people who to want to take them away from mommy and daddy.
This is the life we live on a daily basis, and we have to find a way to live safe, without living in fear. I love my children, and I want them to be safe, but I also want them to be not afraid to cross the street. As our world grows more and more lawless it becomes harder and harder to teach our children to live courageously. There is a way, finding it is hard.
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