I caught images on CTV Toronto earlier this morning,
of Internet posted videos of "The Morningville School Fight Club".
I didn't Google it, I had seen enough.
Teenage boys brutally beating on each other, in planned fights,
while crowds of both sexed teenagers circled, watched and cheered,
time after time after time.
all the while, being video taped, for posting, on the World Wide Web.
On so many levels, this is horrid. Vile. Sad. Devastating. Sickening. Unconscionable.
And real.
It is time to reclaim our children.
Whether your own, or of this planet.
But let us start close to home.
So many people think that as children get older, they need less supervision.
It is simply not true.
Many parents bow out at this age, thinking it is inevitable that peers will/should have more influence than parents
Think of yourselves at that age, in today's environment and with today's technology.
With no active supervision.
I rest my case.
Be it violence , drugs , criminal misconduct or immature sex,
we are losing our kids ,folks.
main stream kids from mainstream families are conducting themselves like this.
And worse. Mortally worse.

I have a great book in my "favorites" bookcase,
a practical, important read

"Hold on to your kids...
Why Parents need to matter more than peers."
Neufeld and Mate'

We must hold our children far closer than we have,
and not only in a physical sense.
We must be involved and available, and not willing to take a backseat to peers and other influences.
It's time to take back control.
To parent, or mentor.
To be involved in our youth.
I won't accept that our children have strayed so far.