Are They Really Just Children?

People say children are a blessing and are precious. While it may be nice that people feel that way, there are deeper connotations. When you take the time to think about it actually, you realize maybe not how precious children are, but how important they are. While we may die or grow old, they will live on. Live on to either make war or make peace, cause trouble or solve trouble, destroy this world or rebuild this world. Children are infinitely important, yet society doesn’t seem to take great care in who makes or breaks these children.

All of the greatest history figures of this world where children once. In childhood, people are molded, and usually stay stuck in that mold. Although it may not always seem so, if you peel back the layers there is still much of the child there. Not necessarily a bad thing, but just something to be aware.

So if children are molded when they are young, it seems that we should set the standard higher, or people should be more aware, who is molding your children? The person who spends the most time with your children usually wins the child’s ideals and understanding of life. Yes, quality wins over quantity, but children are like sponges.

From birth to adulthood, we have a system that has children being away from their parents. While not a problem, it answers very clearly why we have people who act like grown children. How can you ensure a future to people who don’t necessarily care about your future. It just seems that more scrutiny is needs to be taken with child care, because what they teach, will be what society reaps.

On the other hand, it’s not so much what are they teaching, but what are they not teaching. Certain things in life are so crucial but they are not being taught in schools, for the simple reason, schools are not children’s parents. School's responsibility is not to teach them right and wrong, that is the job of parents. Schools teach education.

The scary thing is this, when we get old or when we need help, we are expecting the very children that we see running around your street to save you. They will be your doctors when you get old, they will be your presidents when you vote, they will be your carers later in life, and they will be the ones who dig your grave when you die.

It's not so much of who’s child is this when you see a child, but what harm or good can this child do if left alone? Although every child will only have one biological father or mother, they will have many fathers and mothers who will mentor them in life in how to be a grown adult. An adult who can stand for what’s right and sit down when necessary.

People say that children are wet cement when they are young. What one suggests is: children are great evil or great good waiting to be happened. It is just a matter of who will teach what to a child? If not that, what would a child learn by itself from our actions?

If we can get to our children first, we have won all future wars and future problems. Society is being raised by people who have different opinions from us. Children are learning every day, Tv, youtube, social media, and real life. And when children aren’t learning, it's what they aren’t learning that sometimes causes more trouble. I challenge you on this, children aren’t just precious, children are a something waiting to happen. They will either do much for good or much for evil. If you can impart a seed of justice and truth into a child, you have sown a forest for the future.