single parenthood

Why aren't children just little innocent things these days????? Can it all be TV, music and the shit their parents let them watch. I bet it has more to do with what they see and hear at home. Many of kids don't pretend to smoke cigarettes but they pretend to smoke a pipe or a joint.

Today, yes I teach in a public school in the inner city of Minneapolis, I was reading t0 my kids "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever." It is one of my favorites and the Herdman children are like many in my class. Anyway, there was a line about putting a pussy willow in someone's ear. Four of my boys started laughing their heads off everytime I said pussy willows. I asked them what was so funny and if they knew what a pussy willow was. Of course and it is a shame that they didn't. I explained what the plant looked like and so on but I don't think they believed me. I know exactly what they were thinking about and it upsets me to no end when I think that they are 7. What are they going to be like at 15?

It is nothing for them to tell me that they have seen this rated R movie or played this video with their dad. Someday I am going to get in trouble because I always come back with, if you saw that movie your parents aren't doing their job. Those movies are for adults not kids.

Lord can I survive in this career for 26 more years.......