A CHILD'S DREAM

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It takes patience, perseverance and parents to turn the tide. It also takes a whole lot of faith, hope and trust.

The wayward wanderings of so many of our youth is from the willful neglect-of their parents. Getting the parents to understand, to make the touch choices to help their child or even to sacrifice just a little piece of themselves-for their children's peace of mind...Now that's a mountain that some parents simply refuse to climb. I'll personally, never get it. Why some parents don't really want the kids they so freely brought into the world...and why they would rather focus on themselves and forget their offspring-even when death is knocking at their child's door.

So often in meetings, I hear the painful stories of hopes and dreams, destroyed by sex or drugs or alcohol...and fueled by the lack of Love at home. Kids who fear their future, because they lacked the Loving support from their parents. A debilitating emptiness, feeds the despair that begins destroying the very fabric of the human being, while robbing them of their dreams.

Kids need dreams...and when they're young they need dream makers...Role models who show them honorable success does not come at the risk of forsaking their young.

Sometimes-in this world, all a child has is a dream...When that's taken...What's left? Where do they turn? Why should they even care? In the last few weeks I have seen a lot of heartache among young people...heartache that could have been averted, could still be averted...by a Loving parent. It doesn't take much-but it means so much...to a child.

"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain." JOHN LOCKE

"To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others." POPE JOHN PAUL II

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