What"s a Person To Do?
What Would You Do? This is a true story that I am sharing for a couple of reasons, 1) Youth have a tendecy to make quick rash decisions that can significantly impact their lives and I don't believe society does a good job of developing the critical thinking skills for youth today. 2) I believe some adults would do the very same thing this young man did to resolve the issue, because I saw some "congratulations" and "I wish I would have seen it", in response to his sharing. This is the senario; You look at your window and see a young lady sitting on your car talking to a friend standing near by. You go outside and ask the girl to get off of your car. The girl pretends not to hear you and keep talking. You ask her again, still no response. As you are saying it the third time, her guy friend says she has the right to sit whereever she wants. What would you do?
Young people to day are not equipped to deal with the stresses of life. You hear many youth and young adults that are challenged with bosses that bully, people disrespecting them in public, limited money, unable to find a job, and such life issues, coupled with the fact that many don't feel good about themselves. Their stress levels remain pretty high and the actions they take are actions they live to regret and some can cost a great deal, financially, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The impact or consequences of their actions can also fall upon their family members (for instance if a young adult goes to jail family members are in court, paying for attorneys, visiting them in jail), their children may grow up without a parent, as well as others that are a part of their lives.
The young person in this story got in his car, put the car into reverse (he says about 45 MPH) until the girl fell to the ground, parked his car in the drive way and walked into the house. I ask again, what would you do? How could you have best handled this situation? The next time you sit down with your children, grandchildren, neighborhood youth, youth at church, bring up this senario and walk them through the steps they can take to resolve this type of problem. If you think what the youth did was appropriate, you may need some help thinking through consequences, for instance, what if the girl hit her head and died, what if the man hit you when you got out of the car--it would result in a fist fight which has its own consequences. I have always been really good with consequences because from a youth I was taught that if you make your bed hard you have to sleep in it, I learned from sleeping in many hard beds.
The education world calls this cause and effect. To be successful in life you have to begin thinking about how each possible action will affect your life in the future.
Young people to day are not equipped to deal with the stresses of life. You hear many youth and young adults that are challenged with bosses that bully, people disrespecting them in public, limited money, unable to find a job, and such life issues, coupled with the fact that many don't feel good about themselves. Their stress levels remain pretty high and the actions they take are actions they live to regret and some can cost a great deal, financially, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The impact or consequences of their actions can also fall upon their family members (for instance if a young adult goes to jail family members are in court, paying for attorneys, visiting them in jail), their children may grow up without a parent, as well as others that are a part of their lives.
The young person in this story got in his car, put the car into reverse (he says about 45 MPH) until the girl fell to the ground, parked his car in the drive way and walked into the house. I ask again, what would you do? How could you have best handled this situation? The next time you sit down with your children, grandchildren, neighborhood youth, youth at church, bring up this senario and walk them through the steps they can take to resolve this type of problem. If you think what the youth did was appropriate, you may need some help thinking through consequences, for instance, what if the girl hit her head and died, what if the man hit you when you got out of the car--it would result in a fist fight which has its own consequences. I have always been really good with consequences because from a youth I was taught that if you make your bed hard you have to sleep in it, I learned from sleeping in many hard beds.
The education world calls this cause and effect. To be successful in life you have to begin thinking about how each possible action will affect your life in the future.
