The Sunscreen Song...for kids

If you havent ever heard of the sunscreen song then click the link below.... listen to it....and come back to this page.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5NAPZp2w-o
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Ok so to start off I just want to state that this song is definition of what children need to work on this generation. One of my favorite lyrics in this song "Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly." This relates to pretty much every teenage girl in this world. It's not always the beauty magizines making them feel ugly, its other teens around them too.  We girls are just constantly compare ourselves putting ourselves down. Making us feel things like ugly, fat, weak, and dorky, however none of that is true. We are all beautiful in our own individual way! It is sad that girls don't realize this and constantly insist on changing themselves. God made us the way we are so we should just be happy with what we have and stop with all of there comparisons. A piece of advice that I have to give is just that. Next time you look in the mirror don't look upset at your flaws. Look at yourself with pride and compliment all of your beauty because trust me there is a lot in every single person! Live life to the fullest and don't worry about the little things like not looking like the photo cropped magazine models. In conclusion the sunscreen song and this lyric puts out a lot that needs to be heard and understood!

Joyas Voladoras

Yesterday in class we read the essay, Joyas Voladoras, by Brian Doyle. This essay was a beautiful, inspirational and true piece of writing. There are many meanings that I take from this essay however there is a few lines that I truly think are incredible and are stuck in my head. I was talking about it and trying to deecipher new ideas about it all day yesterday...even at lacrosse practice. It is one of my favorite lines in the essay. This is where it said "Every creature on Earth has approximetly 2 billion heart beats to spend in a life time. You can spend it slowly like a tortoiuse and live to be about 200 years old or you can spend them fast and live to be 2 years old." This quote to me is very discouraging yet facinating at the same time. This is because 2 billion heart beats doesn't seem like a big number/ alot of heart beats in a lifetime. If you imagine how many times the human heart beats in a minute. 60 minutes an hour 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 4 weeks a month, 12 months a year and however many years you shall live. It makes me think that life is so short...almost too short.  So many things you want to accomplish in life and you only have 2 billion heart beats to do so. This line leads me to many questions rather than thoughts as well. For example, if there about 2 billion hearts beats in a lifetime does that mean its is not good to do sports or excersise? This is because although being aactive helps you stay in fit, it increases your heart rate which thus leads me to the question; does being active lead to a faster death? Now there is something to think about, for I still think about it today! In short there were many other great and meaningful lines in this essay but in my opinion this one was my favorite because it had me continually thinking. Finally, I believe that the overall essay was incredibly good!

What's worth Knowing

A man name Neil Gaiman once said. “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”

In my opinion this is a very meaningful quote and it reminds me of many things that I believe are worth knowing.  Something that is worth knowing is whether heaven is real or not, whether you give up after love, or whether when things do get so bad people never already know which is the correct path to take. Even though you have to believe and just trust in yourself and others in most of these topics, I think that there should be some sort of knowing and proof whether if things are real or not and knowing how to cope with deep emotions; however you will never know, because we are never taught.

Heaven is the place of your future, the paradise land you will be when you die. Love is finding your life-long partner your one and true friend. Loosing someone you deeply care about, puts you in your lowest point. How do you deal with these type of great, confused and crushed emotions? This is where you are stuck because you don't know how. Kids sit in school for 6 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, for 12 years. Yes, some of things we learn in school are helpful but about 80% of this knowledge is just forgotten, whether it’s over summer of just later in life. With all that time we should actually learn about the things that we will be worth knowing like the ones said above, just for example. Without knowing and learning these some of our "unknown" feelings can cause depression and other terrible things that you were never taught to handle. It is worth knowing what is real and how to manage yourself so you don't live your life in suspense and/or steering yourself toward the wrong directions. To conclude the only things that we were taught to know were for schoolwork. Never for real-life events that will happen in the future.

Many things are worth knowing yet they cannot be taught by me because I am just a child. However something’s that are worth knowing and should be taught are lessons like, how do we become a content, moral person that is still accepted by others? I feel that teachers shy away from this topic because it’s on a deeper aspect and could really affect someone personally.  Not always everyone is accepted for themselves even though they are the best people they can be. Why don’t we know how to deal with that? That’s right we don’t! So my advice is that teacher’s should talk about this to their students because they are curious and it something worth knowing!