I was just thinking about this. Well, if you don't know my dad is a teacher, a high school teacher. Turns out to be a babysitter too... He had to break up a fight between two babies in the lunchroom a couple days ago. (I call them babies because they act like it, not like the teenagers they are supposed to be.)

If you've been reading my blog for the past few weeks you know that all the kids are locked in the lunchroom at lunch time in our school. For those of you who don't know it, before this idea was incorporated alot of the kids were pushing and shoving others into the lockers and fighting upstairs during lunch time. The teachers got really sick of this and decided they had to do something before some dumb kid gets hurt. Their solution? Lock them in the lunchroom for the period.

I don't know what the hell they were thinking when they came up with this, but they thought it would work. Well, it doesn't. Those dumb kids are going to fight wherever they are, no matter how many eyes are on them. Ipso ergo, they're fighting in the lunch room. Honestly, they are like wild cats, always at each other. And it just puts way more stress on the teachers who have to supervise the lunchroom during the periods, having to break up fights and put kids in their place. It's just creating more problems. Locking them in in a stuffy, crowded, tiny lunch room does not solve the fighting problem.

You can't solve this fighting problem by patching it up with a band-aid and pretend that everything's okay. You need to get to the root of the problem, to the very core of it. But that's nearly impossible. After all, you can't interfere very well with people's homelife.

Many of these kids who are fighting are, to put it bluntly, bonk kids. (Bonk is just our slang for the kids who are, let's say, challenged.) Now, not all of them. Some of the bonk kids are harmless and never cause any trouble, they are just a little slow. But the others - the others are just complete arseholes and spoiled babies.

Why are they like this? I don't know why they fight, for something to do, release tensions, I s'pose. But these rich bonk are troublemakers. They have had everything handed to them on a silver platter when they snap their fingers, atleast at home. No rules, no regulations, completely carefree lifestyle. But when they are in school - you have to fall in line somewhere - they think, "why should I have to do what they say? I can do whatever I want at home."

Their parents give them everything. Nice house, expensive ski-doos, automobiles, designer clothes, you name it. Everything except love and attention. These kids don't need expensive ski-doos. They need love and care and attention. What happens when the playstation becomes the parent? Isn't that kind of sad?

Honestly, parenting skills are thrown completely out the window these days. I am very lucky and thankful to have two wonderful parents who love me no matter what, and love each other as well. (They will be married for 21 or 22 years this August) They have taught me so many crucial life lessons, there are too many to list. But... some kids are not as lucky as I. Some parents are like... we don't have time to be a parent to you honey, here, have a gamecube and keep yourself busy and leave me alone. If you don't have the "time" to show you love your kids, then why are you even a parent?

I don't really even know what I'm saying here. I just keep rambling on like a crazed lunatic, lmao. Interpret it anyway you like, right or wrong or whatever, there's gotta be something behind what I'm saying here. I guess what I'm saying is... if you're a parent, show your kid that you love them more than anything in the world... let them know that you care for them. But don't show it by buying them nice things. That's the wrong way.

Like that song goes, money can't buy me love.

(Phew, that's really long! I doubt anyone actually has the patience to read through it all, but if you made it this far, then congratz. lol.)

There was a lot of fighting when I was in school, that was during Vietnam. I've heard it said that during war time children are much more aggresive and I've been told it has a lot to do with our high sugar diet. When I was young I used to believe it was because of television. I thought all the kids wanted to be like John Wayne and Clint Eastwood.

It would help if there weren't so many single mothers and it is a shame that both parents usually have to work to offord everything.

Anyways - keep your head down and be safe.:)

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I'd be nervous that the kids would be clausterphobic, plus isn't that a fire hazard? The best thing to do with fighting kids is to throw them in a pen outside and let them duke it out. It would also be to gambal on and that could be used for fundraising.