As kids we thought that our parents just didn't have a clue about anything. We were not going to be like our parents when we grew up. Well I am very grateful for mine today. My father has passed on but my mom is still here and I am grateful for that. I thank them both for the up bring I had and the lessons learned, good and bad times shared, most importantly the love and support. I know for sure that I am who I am today because of who she is then and now. Do you remember the first time you noticed sounding like one of your parents or something  they told you was right but as a kid you didn't believe them? It was shocking to me but yes I can honestly say that Damn you were right mom or dad.
Thank you mom I love.
Challenge: If you can I challenge you all to call and tell your parents that you love them and that you are grateful for the way you were raised.

When a child is growing up they should be taught right from wrong, but when that child is old enough, mature enough, to decide for themselves what is right and wrong, It is no longer the teachers (I use this word instead of parents because of our diverse generation that was raised by someone other than their parents) fault as to what that child does. It is the child's decision it should be the child's responsibility. Now what I am saying here is that, me for instance, I was raised by my parents. Mom mostly my dad was a truck drive and was gone alot but his influence was in the house. Anyways they taught me right from wrong, how to act the proper way, to talk, respect for, most importantly, my elders , how to treat the people around me and so on. When I got old enough,I thought anyways, to decide if the way i was taught was right or my ideas were right, on some of those I chose my ideas and was wrong totally wrong.That was my fault not my parents and my parents shouldn't be blamed. Have you heard the saying "Damn boy didn't your mother teach you better then to act that way"........if that boy is old enough to make his own decisions it isn't that his mother didn't teach him he chose that direction. So praise be to the mothers that did the right teaching and didn't get the credit. And to "that boy" act like a man, then be a man and take the responsibility for your own actions. 

Relieving the Pressure: The more and more shootings we have in this countr...

Relieving the Pressure: The more and more shootings we have in this countr...: The more and more shootings we have in this country The more people seem to focus on the mentally ill. Why? Just because people think that m...

The more and more shootings we have in this country The more people seem to focus on the mentally ill. Why? Just because people think that mass murder isn't normal? or People think there has to be something horribly wrong with the person/persons that would do such a thing.How often do they look at the people around them or how they were raised. Maybe that is "their" normal. or Maybe they just really want "them" to shut up and leave 'm alone. or Maybe they were just doing what "they" told'em to do. I don't know for sure about any of that, but I can understand why someone could become homicidal. (I'm just sayin) 

My mamma told me one time that LOVE is the most precious gift you will ever give or receive. Today I totally agree with her. Once you find that love you realize just how precious it really is.  

You can sit around and talk about what your going to do or what you want to do but until you actually get out and start doing it your still just sitten around talking about. Don't get much done that way. Nor do you go many places. 

Mental illness is (in my opinion only) an illness that touches everyone, and I mean EVERYONE. (directly or indirectly) Whether you know it or not. It is the most misunderstood disease, Yes more misunderstood. WHY? I think because of the stigmas and tainted beliefs that come along with it. Who wants to be labeled with a mental illness. Who wants to be looked upon as a freak or devil or witch? Or someone who just ain't right?

 Now I'm no psychiatrist nor have I studied much about it, but my life has been touched by this disease in so many was.

I believe what we do know about mental illness as been a trial and error process and we still don't really understand. it.

 I don't know for sure but if the world had studied this disease as aggressively as they have cancer and aides, we might know more. It's just easier to push someone who has mental illness in an institution or out on the street then it is to deal with them. BUT WHY??????? could you push a cancer patient out in the street or stick them in a corner and hope that no one notices them??????? NO You flock to them and their loved ones to see if there is anything you can do to help and look upon the mentally ill with discus and judgement. even our loved ones tend to push us away it just easier to do that then to learn something we don't know much about. 

I challenge all of you to do something for someone with a mental illness:  TRY UNDERSTANDING IT