Life Through The Eyes of Stacy

~It's no secret that I write poetry...Even as a kid when other kids would give me presents they were always poetry books,journals to write in or really expensive pens. I have been asked by my children's 6th grade teacher to come to class and read the students some of my poetry. I didn't really let myself think about it until tonight and I am really excited. Sure, I will have to fight my anxiety over leaving the house and more than that the nervousness I am sure to feel as I stand before 20-30 eleven and twelve year olds students but when you love something the way I love writing it's not as difficult to do. ~Now I just need to choose a few poems to read. Remembering that my "audience" will be young and very impressionable, I want to read them poetry that is light and fun yet still full of meaning. I would love to write a poem in class with the help of the kids too. I imagine standing there asking the students to come up with a subject, our "noun"(Th...

~When we show love or care toward someone else whether they are a stranger or friend we do two huge things~We feel a sense of pride in making another smile as well as making that person and ourselves feel that they have a connection to another in this sometimes lonely world. We will never ever feel bad about ourselves when we have worked at making another human feel good. It is with that idea and theory that I think that things such as bullying could be snuffed out entirely. ~When we went to school and now our kids follow, we went through many class lessons. Every lesson from math to science, health class and gym....Yet where were the class teaching us, at a young, impressionable age,how to treat others? Lets think about this for a moment....Imagine a class where we really learn to bond with our classmates; a place where cliques and social are not allowed and a person who kids truly admire helps kids to find beauty and good in each other. Imagine a school where each kid doesn't ha...

~To spite what the news and parents of today's kids think, bullying is not new. It has been around since the days of cave men, I'm sure, and will still be alive and "well" many centuries from now. Bullying is born from low self-esteem and fear of anyone or anything different. At least that is my take on it... For a boy or girl who is feeling bad about themselves, maybe feels inferior to another and wants to hide it by puffing up their own chest and acting the part of someone who is sure of themselves, the act of putting down another person is meant to make the bully feel better about themselves. I have a theory though, backed by my own day of being a bully, that they don't feel better for having bullied but instead worse. Who can truly feel better about themselves when they are making another human being hurt? Unless a person was born with no working conscience or they are void of all sympathies toward another because of drugs or some other emotion-killing toxin, ...