Now this means business!!!!

I was starting to think I was the only one with the loud alarms ringing inside my head!

Lately there has been a barrage of articles and interviews...who shall we blame for our children's downward spiral in the schools!!! Should we blame the teachers?...the parents?

Well here is my opinion in a round -a-bout way.....I have started a facebook page called P.A.C.E. (parents and children engaging)

I have been contemplating the plight of the parent for some time. With two girls of my own, 14 & 7, I have witnessed many different things. One being different parenting styles. Another is schooling. My oldest has been to 4 different schools... Don't get me started on that topic!!! BUT... she won the coveted Mayor's Award for being the most outstanding student in her school this yea!!.

I think of how I would have been starting over and over in new schools. Ugh!! So how did my shy, quiet little girl grow and blossom into to such an outstanding student and person? Maybe it is the resilience that comes with so much change?..the ability to adapt and chug a long like normal?....me friends different experiences? Parents who recognize it could all turn south without proper care and attention to her feelings and behaviour?... oh and let's throw a divorce in the mix for an added bonus of devastation! Seems like a recipe for childhood disaster to me!

Fortunately both are well adjusted dream kids!!! It is the right combination of nature vs nurture. We as parents are always talking, listening, teaching. I am always at the school, not so involved as I once was with my first (felt like I needed a salary!!) I know their teachers, the staff, their friends. I go to all the school events.. I am totally there to show support. I love seeing the auditorium filled with proud smiling faces! Then we hope nature is as kind well!! Those wonderful outside sources like peer pressure!!

I have seen kids fall behind.. who's fault?... what the question should the question be?.. what can WE , the parents AND school do? It's like a marriage... both must work together! How productive is casting blame... what purpose does that serve...

I hope to encourage parents and kids to run life's race together... must easier to support our little ones when we have covered many of life's paths twist and turns.

As I was thinking of this blog while driving.. I felt sooo inspired. Then I turned and looked at the car to my left while waiting at the light. what do I see?.... Mom smoking in the car with her kids... UGH!!!!!!!

Let's pick up the P.A.C.E. parents!!!!!!!!!!