This bothered me so much it woke me up out of my sleep. What happened to treat others as you want to be treated? A young boy got hurt three different times in the community center yesterday once he fell and all the children laughed and no one offered to help him up or ask if he was ok. A second time he was hit in the head and again no one asked if he was ok, they just laughed. The third time he hit his head on a table while playing tag and the children playing with him laughed and kept running. SMH when did parents stop teaching compassion to their children? When did community centers stop reinforcing such teaching? I don’t expect teachers to teach everything that is what parents are supposed to do. When teachers are themselves bullied into a place where they ignore bad behavior and don’t encourage correction there is no more wonder in my mind why anxiety in children is so high nowadays and teen suicide is up. I am very disturbed and want to do something about it. Children are supposed to grow to their fullest potential in an environment where they can try new things free from ridicule. I watched as children in the theatre group were scared to do anything as simple as a silly dance for fear of being laughed at by the “cool kids”. when did children stop really being allowed to be children? They can’t grow to be confident if they are constantly laughed at over every single thing they do. I was laughed at as a child, but those children that laughed at me sometimes also encouraged me other times and helped me in others. I knew they were not out to get me. I know the children are not out to get other children on purpose but when it is constant a child can’t be so sure. Every child is laughed at SOMETIMES not ALL the time. There is a very large difference. No wonder why children don’t do anything except play basketball and rap that is what is “expected of them” from what they see on television. The only doctor I see is Ben Carson (not a fan due to the soundbites shared in the media which paint him as an embezzling fool) and he is no Dr. Martin Luther King (ironic how they only learn about him when it comes to civil rights) I don’t even know what they really learn about him in school these days but it can’t be much the way they treat their peers or Dr. Huxtable. I stopped watching television because there are no more positive role models anymore stemming from a wide variety of occupations. I feel like I am the only female engineer encouraging young girls to be engineers. I was excited to see the book series of female engineers in the library but all the kids are on the computers or using the free wifi on their phone. WHY do 9-year-olds need phones? they have crickets which allow children to call three numbers in case of emergency. no need for a full smartphone. The radiation is bad for young children why subject your child to such things? Character education needs to be taught somewhere. Children are not getting it from church because parents are not going. (eye roll) I might not have been going but I was still teaching it and my children went to church events. I don’t know what parents are teaching their children at home and I don’t think it is the place of a public facility to teach outright but they should encourage and correct bad behavior. I can’t believe society has fallen this far that everyone is scared to correct bad behavior. Politically correct my behind. Trying so hard not to hurt feelings while children are being damaged for lack of trying to encourage. Now I need to watch this again with a new perspective. https://youtu.be/wpGd5DZ_K5w The environment of these children, my children. are growing up is in fact far more hostile than when I was growing up. even atheists are welcome at UUA.org churches for the sake of the children being in an environment where they can experiment, learn, and grow in a safe place. Outside of the home where a child learns first, the church was second, to teach children how to respect and revere their elders, the community center third, to teach children how to relate to their peers and children of various ages from other schools at times. then came schools to teach a form of patriotism, or tribal mentality as it were when it comes to sports and academic competition. now it seems everything has been broken. You decided what to fix first.