Drama

I feel for children.  They get caught up in their grown-ups drama all the time.

Children are born knowing when they feel bad and when they feel good, but by the time most of them are five they become confused and it's understandable, because children are natural apers.

It is important for a child to copy her grown-up.  It is how she learns to cross the street, eat with a spoon, beware of the big dog inside the fence. 

When children see their loving parents freak out over inconsequential things, cry copious tears because some distant relative might be sick, beat their breasts over causes better served by simple hard work, they understand drama gets attention even it they see no reason for it.  Pretty soon another human being has been taught to over react and under think a situation.

It's a poor legacy to give those we love.  A child under these circumstances has no idea how negatively all this commotion is going to affect him.  He sees other children being rewarded for what appears to him to be nothing while he gets sent to time out. 

I work with a lot of perfectly beautiful, intelligent children who do not thrive or stand out simply because they are starved for attention and have no idea how to get it appropriately.   Teachers model it, other children model it, but for the kid raised on drama these things are like raindrops in a cyclone and before long they become a "problem child."

If people are going to have children they need to prepare them for the real world and not a life of misery.

There is only so much one teacher can do in six hours with 28 children.  When evaluations go home, those parents who have been too busy suddenly show up,  irate and full of drama as if making a lot of noise is the same thing as rearing a happy healthy child.