[Kal3ido]

I dont look at it as who looks better, if you come from a family where evey 3rd child succeeds, then you will understand my thinking. My mom and dad gave us a good home, made good living, they was involed in our lives, but my brothers as my dad calls them are "stumps". Since im the only one doing something with my life, I refuse to have my kids displayed in this negative light. I know that this might be wishy washy, but who know's as Im told, we have bad blood. I didn't believe it at first but it happens a lot where I live at. If you have 3 kids it seems like 2 of them will be stumps. That's in my family and friends. Im very superstitions(sp?)
Let's take BET for starters. What do you see? If a kid grows up and believes this is my culture I need to act this way or do this or wear this. Media does play an active view in children lives. All I can do is install in my child good values. I know I can not be with the child 24/7 and be like this is wrong, dont give into peer pressure and things like that. I think if a child feels that it's apart of another culture that has good values, maybe it will become different and a well respected person and want to know more about it. Maybe my notions are flawed, but they can be fixed. I just want my kids to not turn out like my generation.
Me on the other hand I feel I did good, I dont like to feed into the negative, but if you see it happens so many times how can you keep turning a blind eye and not wonder why it happens. Peer pressure was never an issuse for me, I dont follow the crowd. School was tough, but im still at it and doing a swell job if I dont say so myself.