Ok really quick, I work with elementary and middle school students
every week. I see how care free the elementary students are with each other, if
one is a little odd then so be it, the odd one just keeps on being themselves
and the others can like them or go play with someone else. But middle school,
oh goodness how they care about what the others think of them. They are so
sacred to look “silly” that they refuse to have any fun. They play the ‘games’
of high school students, who is dating who, and who cheated on who, THAT is
what is silly. Let me explain like this. Ever seen a tadpole hop around like a
frog? I haven’t. Why is that? Because they are not ready to hop yet, their legs
are not grown and they don’t know what they are doing. (Please take a second to
get the amazingly odd mental picture of a tadpole trying to hop, in your head…
Great) now I know that tadpoles don’t try and hop before the right time. But kids
try and grow up before the right time, and adults encourage them! They ask us
kids who we are dating and what we want to do with our lives as early as 11
years old. That I know 6th graders who brag about the fact that they have had
14 boyfriends just makes me want to cry. It has become an encouraged thing to
act FAR beyond your years. There are so many kids who aren’t allowed to just be
kids. High school student are the same way, trying to figure out who we are and
how our lives should be, thinking that we are so grown up and mature when in
reality we are still kids in the eyes of everyone else. I enjoy being a kid,
now, I have a car, I work, and I am responsible for my siblings at times, but I
enjoy the ability in being a kid to say “I don’t have it all figured out. You
heard me! I have no idea how life works!!!” I am learning as I go and I don’t pretend
to have all the answers. I am letting myself admit that I don’t know it all and
that there are many older and wise people who I must let help me if I ever wish
to live a real and true life. Most importantly, I must let God guide me, I know
NOTHING compared to him, and no matter what I will never know what’s best for
me, ONLY God does. I have heard it put like this, if someone lined up for me 10
different lives, all good, and said now choose your life, I wouldn’t pick the
right one. So let yourself be a kid, always learning and growing up, and never
try to make a kid grow up to fast, God will handle that.
Don’t let anyone look down on
you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in
conduct, in love, in faith and in purity
1Timothy 4:12
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