Keep Pushin!

Don't doubt yourself we're actually the most motivated group of people I've seen from our generation at least. Pushing ourselves to the extremities of endless possibilities venturing out to be clothing designers, music producers, make up artist, chefs, TV personalities and entrepreneurs. Willing to go out on a limb on sheer self motivation. Letting a thought trickle into an idea and blossom into a dream set forth into action becoming a future for ourselves and the ones that we have coming up in the cradle. The system was built to break us but we refuse to be hindered by poor resources and little support. Although negatively depicted as "baby mamas", "baby daddy's", "jump offs" and "hoe ass niggas" we rose against the "ain't shit" stereotype and became greater than we ever imagined. Keep pushing!

The miseducation of the colored kids

Our schools are not designed to educate black children, that is why it is the parents job to do this at home. Teachers feel underpaid so they cheat our children out of the proper education they are entitled to. They don't go the extra mile and only teach children the minimum. There is not enough money going in to schools so there are insufficient materials for teaching. Children don't even have penmanship classes anymore, they don't understand script or cursive writing and they can't write it themselves. I work in a school and when I tell 17 and 18 year olds to SIGN IN they print their name. In order for a child to receive a fair education the parent MUST be involved. There's no other way around it! Teachers introduce new lessons through homework when they should be doing that in class while the children are in school. Homework is suppose to reinforce was learned in class, it is suppose to be practice. What happened to spelling words? Writing them 3 or 5 times each? Writing sentences and having a spelling test at the end of the week? The school system is failing our children only because parents are allowing it. How many parents are actively involved in their children's schooling? How many PTA meetings have you attended? How many parent teacher conferences? It is the responsibility of both the parent and the teacher. Remember "it takes a village to raise a child".

Defining LOVE

Being in love with someone means nothing if you don't know why you love them. I guess we all love for different reasons, for some it maybe superficial, or material, based on what that person can do for you (financial). However if it's true love, love for happiness, someone you find solace in or helps you find inner peace within yourself, even though thats still something acquired or gained through that love it may still be pure. That person helps you become a better person. There are different kinds of love, different levels. Some say love grows on people if you stay with someone long enough, others say if someone doesn't ever truly love you on their own the love, even if it comes is never truly genuine. So what exactly is real love? Is it unconditional? Loving someone through thick and thin? Is love sometimes pleasure and other times pain? Allowing them to treat you bad? Working through countless infidelities or mistrust? What is the limit for heartache from someone you love? Who decides that? How does love get to a point where it's no longer love? Why do people fall out of love? Everyone has a different interpretation of love. No one thing governs what we as individuals think love is. You can't force your love onto someone else. They'll never love you the same way you love them. Someone always loves stronger or has loved longer. Love supposedly knows no boundaries, knows no limits. Sometimes we want someone to love us so much that we perceive things to be love just to grasp the feeling. Love is a deadly force that can be detrimental and toxic. It can build you up to be the greatest or break you down to your weakest point. Some say you haven't really loved until you've been hurt. Through my own exploration with love, trying to define it, understand and live with it I've sometimes found myself wondering if it's worth loving at all. The people I've loved the most have always have been the ones to hurt me and I'm left to regroup, pick up the pieces and begin again. Those are the only ones that can hurt you though, the ones you've given a piece of your heart to. That's the risk that comes along with loving. No one can control love, it's an uncontainable force. We can't help who we love, even if they don't love us back or have hurt us before. The heart wants what the heart wants. Humans need love to thrive because without it where do we find hope, faith and contentment? So do we live to find love or should we learn to live without it?

Instill values in your children

After some reflecting and thoughtful consideration I decided to minimize the amount of expensive gifts I give to my daughter. She's my only child and I work hard so that she doesn't want for anything but I realized that me not having certain things when I was younger, wanting those things and having to work harder to obtain and achieve those things helped shape me as a person. Some children and teens are so lazy nowadays. Always wanting something handed to them or trying to find an easy way around an obstacle instead of just tackling it head on. I realized that having every new DS, tablet, cell phone or iPod really does nothing for an 8 year old but give them the false belief that everything in this world comes easy. This is not to say that my daughter won't get SOME of the things that she wants and all of the things that she needs but I'll give her something better. Better meaning unbreakable, non perishable, won't be outdated and will never need a new version. I'll give her more morals and less video games, more heart to hearts and less tv time, more lessons on how little girls and young ladies should carry themselves so she'll always know what's acceptable and what's not. Know how to conduct herself when I'm not around and how to always be a leader and never follow behind anyone and that gift is worth more than anything you can buy in a store