The mass nightmare I fear is the current polluted environment we have allowed to completely encompass our school aged children. To truly understand this environment entirely, allow me to first state these three individual nightmares completely and seemingly separate and distinct. However they collectively create the magnitude and far reaching influence of the environment I am referring to. I am not attempting to be an alarmist or simply trying to frighten you in the spirit of the season of Halloween. This environment is truly a nightmare and you too will experience its frightening effects sooner or later with your children.

The first nightmare I refer to doesn't sound all that frightening and it seems more of a pet-peeve rather than a real problem. Lately, I have noticed this happening whenever a news agency has the two major political parties on a talk-show to discuss and answer questions. When one side, and it truly doesn't matter which side, because they both do it, is asked to answer to something that they are either ashamed of or something they know will come across as negative to the majority of viewers; what do they do? They excuse their admittedly bad behavior, choice or action by pointing out something the other party has done or said wrong in the past. And just because the other side did this bad ‘thing’, their fault or blame isn't addressed separately as it should be. They hope it gets lost in the shuffle they have created. Worst yet, the news people continue to allow it and it turns into a 'he said-she-did-they thought they would do' type of argument and the main point gets lost in the whole carefully orchestrated and skillful executed shuffle of blame. Because this is purposely done to evade any blame or shame being put on them or ‘their side’ we as adults are forced to parse actions and verbiage just to be able to declare one side the victor, of the moment, just to have some sort of purpose and closure. We adults are left to raise our children to be good upstanding individuals in light of all the truly bad role model examples around them. What do we or should we do? What I wonder is in the midst of this type of dishonesty what type of good and uprightness are we parents referring to? Are we referring to the true traditional goodness or the newly constructed goodness of our clever political leaders doing the blame shuffle? If anyone thinks our kids can't see through this blame game shuffle, then they are not listening to our kid’s discussion whenever they think an adult is not present. Don’t we understand that if this type of dishonesty is allowed to continue and to exist as an example for our kids what ill effects it will have on them? What has happened to the days when our political leaders were the ‘cream of the crop’ and truly a positive role model for our children? Was it all a clever lie or do we have a ‘newer’ more serious problem on our hands? Someone needs to inform these political leaders that the phrase 'I'm sorry' when paired up and ended with the word BUT... null and voids the whole phrase. We aren't asking for them to be 'angels', just honest and forthright because they are a role model for children. Just because political party-A- did such and such, doesn't excuse political party-B's- wrong actions sometime in the near future!

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