"You Can't Win for Losing"

This past weekend, I had to participate in a health fair. My group's topic was bullying, so we made huge posters/flyers/etc. As the kids walked booth to booth, we would ask them if there was bullying at their school. I was amazed to how many children actually said yes! We asked them if they knew what to do when they witnessed it, which most said tell the teacher. Nobody wants to be a tattle tail, but this day and age, bullying leads to GUNS and DEATH. One boy came with his older brother. The older brother said under his breath, "Snitch". I said, "Now you know violence is not the answer." Way to be a good role model Big Bro. Then a lady came by and talked to us for a good bit. She stated that she did not have any of her own children, but she had 13 at home. Evidently, she has a foster care or at least a secure home for these troubled adolescents to come to. She was going on and on how the teachers/authoritative figures don't do anything, and what was she to do. I told her it is the teachers/principal's responsibility to take care of matters, and if they weren't, for her to go to the school board and superintendent. One of the problems is that these schools are lower privileged. She tells us that 3 of her 13 kids took pistols to school because they didn't know how to react to getting bullying. I said, "First of all, where are they getting the pistol?" She had 'no clue'. What in the world would possess a teenager to pick up a gun to take to school to resolve a conflict. Oh, he'll resolve a conflict all right, and end up in jail for a very long time. People like that are the reason that the 2nd amendment is being looked up to be taken away, and honestly, I can't blame the government for considering it. I know that may make a lot of people mad because a lot of smart/safe people have guns. As a girl, I should probably have one myself, but I don't like guns. In the small town which I'm from, everyone hunts, so there would be an uproar if fire arms were revoked. You can't win for losing. That seems to be the case for a lot of things.

My psychiatric nursing professor is a hoot! He's probably in his late 60's, smokes, drinks, cusses (or curses for you northerners)- basically all the things we nurses 'should not' do! Ha! I told my classmates that working on a Psych unit would drive me to smoke/drink all the time! We were discussing how to assess a patient- which is way different than a patient getting admitted for heart failure/broken bone. Circumstance is the key. He had one patient and was asking the similarities between an orange and banana. Well, as most, they would say they're both fruits, have peels, etc. I thought to myself similar in color, but that may make me crazy because no one else thought that! Ha. Anyway, this geriatric lady mumbled under her breath, "They're both high in potassium." Our teacher says, "I thought to myself: Where the hell did that come from?" Hahah...See everyone has a different perspective. Turns out, she was a retired nutritionist from Auburn University suffering from depression.

It is none of our business that Bristol Palin is pregnant. She may have made a mistake, and should have known better, but by no means, should she, nor her family be attacked for it. As I recall, Jamie Lyn Spears had a baby at 16 out of wedlock. Then she was praised on a Women's magazine for being an incredible mother (which she may be, but we should not condone it). Many young adults make mistakes, but it does not make them a bad person. I wish the US cared more about REAL issues instead of looking at Levi's Myspace and tearing them apart. Get over yourself! Sarah Palin may believe in abstinence, and that's fine. You cannot control your kids, as much as you think you can. Palin is not a hypocrite. She probably did preach abstinence to her children. People will do what they want to-that goes back all the way to Adam & Eve.