Many children do not receive this type of guidance from their parents, because often the parents have no clue either.

Our children can have a better persepctive of their place in society, in the human race and in the scheme of all life's experiences by volunteering, starting at a young age.

I always took my daughter to volunteer activities and I firmly believe this would help reduce bullying and other undesirable behaviors by allowing children to see that they can make this world a better place, and by not wasting their time on undesirable behavior because they find a purpose in their young lives that will carry on throughout their adult lives. 

My own volunteerism led me to so many things I would never have experienced in life, not to mention skills that provided me several career options because of all I learned from it.

When children see that there is always someone worse off than themselves, and try to help ease the struggle for others, they find meaning in life.  And I know that "the meaning of life is to live a life of meaning".  This awareness is the key to many things that our children need to learn in order to be a productive and helpful part of society.  Volunteering makes one so grateful for all they have, and enables them to live with "An Attitude Of Gratitude" for all their blessings.  It helps them want to share what they have to offer for the betterment of all.

Transcript: This age will be remembered as an age where there was great wealth creation, there was great freedoms spread, there was a lot of poverty addressed all over the world, a lot of connections remade and reestablished all over the world, the world became flat, but I don’t necessarily know that that- all those positive things necessarily point to a positive outcome because we have another looming challenge with the environmental crisis in a lot of areas and globally. And so we’re about to be--  we’re not about to be; we have been dealt a very, very large challenge and we haven’t really fully put our arms around it. So the age that I just defined would be more of 2010 previous and the air in front of us- I think potentially the largest issue that we’ll face would be environmental, could be war related, but other than wars environmental. I think it would look like what’s happening in Australia where the environment wasn’t that big of a deal. They had ozone problems with people getting skin cancer. They started wearing Lycra to the beach. It wasn’t that okay, the ozone’s fixed, great, we put our head around that and we fixed it, but now you’ve got the warmest months on record and all of a sudden the entire country of Australia shifted over to a very keen sense of green candidate issues. The last election was one on green issues. That’s going to be happening more and more. It’s just logical. When water dries up water becomes- the commodity becomes really valuable. I live in southern California so I know that. I had a blackout a week and a half ago. I’m sitting at my PC, had- 12 o’clock at night or whatever, all power went out. This happened before in southern California but not in a while. This is the first--  This is California blackout so all of a sudden if that- if rolling blackouts and things that are of that magnitude start happening, yeah, shift- everything shifts over there. I think that’ll happen more.

Recorded on: 9/27/07

The answer to this crisis of moral leadership in our Government can be found in the Book, Estoeric Psychology by Alice A. Bailey (pp.544,545) "The obessed leaders in all branches of government are shells obsessed by evil entities and hence their dynamic, one-pointed potency, hence also their extreme skill and cunning, based on very ancient evil experiences and hence also the well-night ludicrous falsity of their propaganda.  They are devoid of all true feelings and perception, lacking the light of love and understanding, but powerfully animated by materialism.  It's time that men woke up to the nature of these beings who seek to enslave humanity.  They themselves have been evoked out of their evil past by the material side of humankind.  In like manner, the Forces of Light can be evoked in tremendous potency but only by the massed aspiration and spiritual desires of the peoples of the Earth.  Of this evocation there are already signs."

The answer to this crisis of moral leadership in our Government can be found in the Book, Estoeric Psychology by Alice A. Bailey (pp.544,545) "The obessed leaders in all branches of government are shells obsessed by evil entities and hence their dynamic, one-pointed potency, hence also their extreme skill and cunning, based on very ancient evil experiences and hence also the well-night ludicrous falsity of their propaganda.  They are devoid of all true feelings and perception, lacking the light of love and understanding, but powerfully animated by materialism.  It's time that men woke up to the nature of these beings who seek to enslave humanity.  They themselves have been evoked out of their evil past by the material side of humankind.  In like manner, the Forces of Light can be evoked in tremendous potency but only by the massed aspiration and spiritual desires of the peoples of the Earth.  Of this evocation there are already signs."

 so should the parents disipline their kids or should they "spare the rod"?

I would like to start with the concept of no monetary. Things are getting way out of hand these days, and I feel I'm just spinning my wheels.I think that if there were no monetary, we could probably move further as an advanced human race. Ask your self; why is it that only 1 or2% of the world's population controls all the wealth and resources. GREED thats why. My theory is if there were no monetary then we could save ourselves and the planet. War, crime ,poverty, etc. would slowly disappear and we could progress as one world one people.We would have more time for the things that really count like life and the planet. Let's face it we are destroying are future for generations to come.I could talk about this concept for a long time but for now I will give one example: Technolgy could move much faster if they were not held back with red tape and grants to move there inovations forward safely.Instead the world's population is to busy with creditors and merchants trying survive I am currently trying to set up a lunch date with AL GORE this summer to see if i can get some key people on board with this concept. I would like feedback to know if others are on the same page as myself.Remember strength in numbers. I'm hoping to get as much attention regarding this concept as possible.Waiting on Congress would be fruitless. I'm depending on the world's population.There really can be a global solution.

Raymond 

There exists monumental ancient wisdom verifying this cause and effect.  What would happen to the planet's approaching armaggedon if human consciousnesses were to make an evolutionary shift into cooperation, tolerance, equal sharing of earth's resources, and the next paridgm of a sense of "one human family'' working together as brothers and sisters for the building of an enlightened and more highly cultured species were to occur?

Students are being smothered in debt, how can they be a creative force for the future?