Comments on: TMI THURSDAY: WISHING I Could CHange the World!

By: meleah rebeccah

meleah rebeccah — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:06:09 +0000

Oh No. My heart just broke when I read about Student4. How sad for a child to feel responsible for keeping a parent off drugs.

I know, can you only imagine? I was stunned by their stories. You hear about them, you read about them but coming face to face was hard.

By: blueviolet

blueviolet — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:25:56 +0000

It puts it all in perspective when we see people with lives so different from our own. I can see how it really would have affected you!

It forever changed my life!

By: LiLu

LiLu — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:34:22 +0000

Wow, lady. Maybe not changing the world, but you’re definitely doing some good out there.

Ah, thanks, that is sweet, sometimes you just feel you want to do more! Especially when you get my age (lol)

By: Clevelandpoet

Clevelandpoet — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:45:37 +0000

In High School I wrote this play to teach young children about fire safety and then helped put it on. While talking to them about their lives I learned so much and seeing what the play and talking to them did for them helped push me to keep writing and striving to change and help every way I could.

It is amazing what you learn from kids when you LISTEN!!!!

By: Jenni

Jenni — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:59:00 +0000

I once got accused by a former employer that I wanted to “save the world”…nope, I explained to her, I just want to make the world a better place for those children in my corner of it. We can’t change/save the world, but we can do what we can to make it better, especially for children, in our little corner; and if we all did in our corners of the world, imagine the change!

Working for children is such a blessing and is so eye opening. Just being a part of the world is often enough to impact them!

Deep down I know that sometimes you have no idea how as a teacher you might reach just one child and that is an honor but sometimes I just wish to do more, you know the dream and they just really reached me!

By: Sheri

Sheri — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:33:56 +0000

Wow. Yeah, I know from experience too kids just don’t have it easy in those areas. I don’t speak about it on my Blog, but I was a social worker for DHR briefly (about 4 months)… I had to investigate child abuse and neglect. It was VERY hard to do and not get emotionally involved and I spend many nights after work worrying about the cases I had and trying to help them, but the system really doesn’t care about them individually – just the numbers on paper.

I couldn’t even imagine such a job, yikes

By: Lauren

Lauren — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:10:03 +0000

That is very eye-opening. It sounds like these movies I’ve seen – of course, Freedom Writers, but there was also one with Michelle Pfeiffer in the 90s. It was called something like Dangerous Games, or something of that sort. It was kind of like the Freedom Writers of the 90s. Both movies were very good. I hope you are able to help people. That experience will probably always stay with you. I can only imagine how it must’ve been to hear their stories.

Oh, I do know those movies, gee, not quite as ‘romantic’ as those movies. I didn’t find a way to move the kids but I did connect with them and they forever changed me!

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