Lifestyle Youth

Are you a Grown-up?

Hello Table, you know I’m so happy to be back at the table. I promise I will make every effort to be more consistent with these discussions. My trip is over and now back to work. So I know the question is weird, so I’ll re-word it like this at what point are you considered a grown-up? By standards it would be when you’re 21 right? Well does that mean you’re grown or you’re older?…

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Lifestyle Youth

Bullying

Hi table, so glad to have everyone back. Well this topic has been circling around for a while and I didn’t see it as my problem, but I see that it is, as it should be for anyone who is a parent or witnesses bullying. I heard a news story recently that a 12-year old girl committed suicide due to bullying at a school. If this wasn’t bad enough, the news reporters interviewed several parents…

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Youth

Who helped shape YOU into the person you are today?

Hello roundtable! So glad to see you again (virtually). Well as you were reading the title I hope you were thinking about who help shape you into the person you are today. I mean I wrote in a blog recently that my experiences helped shape me, but in those experiences there were several people who attributed to that some more than others. Of course the number one person/entity that has contributed to me is God.…

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Youth

Confidence

Hello table- let me ask you something, do you have a daughter and if you do how often do you give her confidence? I know that seems like a strange question to some. I mean how do you give someone confidence and better yet shouldn’t that be given with our daughters? Well sometimes its not, sometimes our daughters give such a good masking their true feelings.  Sometimes they smile and do so much that they…

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Youth

A Crying Shame

Welcome back table, So where have people’s morals and ethics gone? I mean it use to be a time when people did things for each other just because it was nice or the right thing to do. You could help someone out without expecting anything in return, but that is starting to be a thing of the past. Let’s take this discussion of some teenage boys watching a disabled man drown. Are you freaking kidding…

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