Our Beautiful Children of Today

By Ruthe

We elderly seniors of the yesteryears have many wonderful attributes and much wisdom to instill in the souls of these children of today, the trials and tribulations of the every day hassles are demanding on our youth, these young people must accept it with an open mind, knowing in their hearts these hectic happenings are opinions from many people living around the World with their different cultures and confusing religious beliefs. Our children of today will be the foundation of this great country in the new century-- as my generation was 100 years ago. We also had many hard times while growing up in the last century, many good people starved during the " Great Depression " we lost thousands of teen agers and many elderly men and women because we could not afford Doctors. Our whole country was suffering in so many ways, there was no jobs available this causing a severe hunger to so many World wide. We were barely getting back a better economy when " World War 11 " was declared--- what a disaster this was to our young men and women ( teen agers ) thousands of them being drafted and sent to fight the enemy---- we lost our cream of the crop in this horrible war. I'm sure grandparents have spent many hours telling of this terrible thing happening to our Country. Those of us that survived and living now will never forget those days of sheer stress--- plus our broken hearts. We still grieve for our beautiful children who sacrificed their lives to make a better America for the new generation that we are living in today. There are many great opportunities for our youth of today in our new century they will need parental guidance and with their own perseverance will succeed. We seniors have unconditional love, faith and trust in our young people, we know they'll become great citizens and will be in charge of our great Country, they will never let it be destroyed by Terrorists.

The great things for me in getting older and at the ripe old age of 81 consist of so many wonderful things that has happened to me here in my golden years, especially the kindness, trust and most of all--- the tremendous amount of genuine love from my 2 children and their children (my grandchildren) . My excellent health has been a God-sent to me, and I thoroughly enjoy life to it's fullest. There are times when I feel guilty to see so many younger people suffering with incurable diseases and their lives shattered with no light at the end of the tunnel, and them knowing life will be shortened for them, I think many times it should be me instead of those that are so much younger than I, I'm assuming that God has plans for all and he'll do what is right we must trust to his good judgment and continue on with our journey.

Getting older is rewarding to we seniors for having the wisdom that we can very often share with so many younger people--- It's very gratifying to us and we feel we've accomplished another milestone in our long lives.

I sincerely hope the wisdom of many seniors can become a sound effect on the very younger generation, and they can achieve the wonderful values that were instilled in us during our growing up years. I do believe high moral's must be instilled in our young children starting at their learning age, parents must administer good behavioral habits in front of them teaching true love, trust, respect and gratitude.

My parents were very strict but wonderful parents, and we children did not have to be told but one time when our daddy would speak, he never raised his voice and we never ever was given a spanking from him, they reasoned with us and explained in detail our wrongdoing, I will never forget one incident that happened to our baby sister she was about 6 years old, she brought home from our corner grocery store an English Walnut without paying for it--- while cracking the nut and not knowing our daddy was watching-- he asked her if she had paid for the walnut--- in his kind voice told her she would have to return the walnut and must apologize to the store owner. Daddy drove all of us to the store and insisted we watch her tell Mr. Fulgenzi she had stolen the walnut and she is very sorry and will never do this again. This not only was a lesson to her but we other sisters sure learned a good lesson here too, we sisters hugged her for having to do this and and told her she was a good little girl and that God will bless her. Honesty was certainly instilled in all three of us on that day, and to steal anything was absolutely forbidden in our family, what an embarrassment this was to this very young child but what a tremendous attribute was instilled in all our young lives.

In time to come our young children of today will appreciate this way in teaching them, especially when they become older and are parents themselves they will certainly want to raise their children the same way that--- mom and dad did it back in their learning years. We are very proud of our children of today and we suggest them using the great recipe to achieve their future happiness with their dream of tomorrow being completed.

A guaranteed recipe----to achieve the " American Dream " Blend together thoroughly the 10 ingredients listed below--- throw in double amounts of #1---- use 24 hours a day--- you'll soon find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. You are the greatest and may God bless you all in the " New Century "

1. Love
2. Respect
3. Honesty
4. Gratitude
5. Integrity
6. Well being
7. Open mind
8 . Achievement
9, Accomplishment
10. Be yourself at all times.

We seniors of the nineteenth century have faith, trust and confidence," our beautiful children of today " will lead our Country with the highest of honor and will make us proud.

Truly yours,

Ruthe