top of page
My Cause !
"MY STORY"
"The Great Sign In Heaven"
About the Eclips On Sept. 26. 2017
Go to my favorite movies.
Suffer Little Children
A Seed Is Planted
Home isn't the only place a seed can be planted. A few years ago while working at one of the Ohio State prisons I asked the warden if it was possible to take a few teenagers on a tour in hopes of changing their outlook on life. He said there were others who asked him the same question. His reply was, "There is a fifty fifty chance that they may see someone they look up to and steer towards crime.
Children like to fit in, they don't like being a loner. Their friends hang out in a group and they feel the need to too. If their friends smoke, drink or use drugs there is always the rick of pear pressure involved. Will your child give in to it or will they just say no and risk loosing their friends?
Some times it is hard to make a child understand about having the wrong friend or group of people. Some times they find out the hard way.
No matter how innocent your child may or may not be and says he had no part of anillegal act, if they are with a friend that, say shop lift's they will be charged too. There are young people in prison because they were with a friend who committed a crime while they were with them.
It is a hard task for parents to get their children to understand about the company they keep. I remember as a teenager my mom trying to tell me about the company that I keep.
Bullying and pear pressure go hand in hand. They are a frighting thing to a child going to school or at play. Some-times they are pushed to their limit and they end up killing someone or killing themselves.
If a child lives with criticism, They learn to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility, They learn to fight.
If a child lives with ridicule, The learn to be shy.
If a child lives with shame, They learn to feel guilty.
If a child lives with tolerance, They learn to be patient.
If a child lives with encouragement, They learn confidence.
If a child lives with praise, They learn to appreciate.
If a child lives with fairness, They learn justice.
If a child lives with security, They learn to have faith.
If a child lives with approval, They learn to like themself.
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship,
They learn to find love in the world.
If a child lives in a Christian home, They learn to trust in Jesus.
Matthew 13:4-9
4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Children have idles they look up to and admire. Maybe a superstar on TV, of a football player on the team, or it could be a Sunday school teacher, who knows? From the time they start school until they are set in their ways as an adult.
She told me about this one guy I use to hang out with, how I would get into trouble if I didn't stop running with him. I would say that he was ok and I knew how to pick my friends. I said, mom I wish you didn't try to pick my friends for me. A few years later this this guy was arrested, charged, found guilty and was sent to a federal prison for kidnapping a girl and taking her across state lines. If I had been in the car with him when he done it, I would have gone to prison with him, even though I knew nothing about it.
Don't let this happen to the seeds you plant!
Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
One of the first people a child sees or comes in contact with each day, besides their family, is their school bus driver. I can remember my bus driver, as a boy, living in the country. He was the kind of person who just about every one who rode the bus loved and admired. No matter howbad we felt when we got on the bus he always had a way about him that would cheer a person up.
He always had a joke to tell and everyone would listen as he started out with, "Now hear this." He always brought us candy or a treat of some kind at Christmas time. I can remember being in school when they announced over the loud speaker that President Kenedy was killed. You could hear a pin drop it was so quiet. Back then everyone respected their President. Any- way, school was dismissed and all the busses were in the parking lot ready to take us all home. As we loaded our bus, every- one was so quiet. It was the first time it had been that quiet since I started riding. Charley knew why every one was quiet, we were all in shock from hearing what happen to our president. I don't remember how he did it, but he broke the silence and got everyone back to earth and their mind off the president long enough to get us all home so our parents could talk to us.
He loved to skate, he could walse, skate backwords, do the limbo, do tricks and do just about anything on skates. He loved to share skating with the kids on his bus. Driving the school bus was more than just a job to him, he got satisfaction from seeing children have fun and being happy. He use to come around with the bus and pick everyone up on Saturday nights some times and take us all skating at the rink. I can remember seeing the bus coming up the road and I would run to dad and say, "Here comes Charley, can I have a dollar so I can go skating?" I would get so excited as dad would pull out his last dollar and give it to me.
I use to sit on the bus and watch him drive the bus. I would think to myself, I want to be a school bus driver like Charley some day. He has such an important job and everyone seems to like him a lot. Needles to say, I ended up driving a school bus for 14 years.
There are other kinds of bus drivers too. Those who are there just for the money and benefits. They could care less about how the children feel, or how they talk to them. When I first started driving I was a sub driver, if another driver couldn't make it to work for some reason they would call me to take their place for how ever long the driver was off.
There was this one time I took the place of a driver who would be off for a week or so for some reason. As I drove the route and started picking up the children, one of them got on and said, "I'm glad you are driving the bus Mr. Foster, the other driver curses, smokes and is mean to us. I reported it to the principle, but it didn't do any good. He said he know I was a christian but I had to get use to those things If I was going to drive. He said I had to understand the kind of environmentthose children live in."
Parents may raise their children one way, but when they go out in the real world, they see a different way. Not only bus drivers influence our children, but teachers, janitors, principles, and those who may be working around the schools like volunteers and people making devilries. They may admire one of their friends or a play mate that can influence our children and plant a seed in their mind.
In Our
Public Schools
bottom of page