~Responsibilities and Duties~

Responsibilities and duties are different. Responsibilities are things that you should and need to do. When I volunteer, stay informed, and respect the rights of others, I am being a responsible citizen. Duties are things you have to do. Duties include having to go to school, paying taxes, and obeying the law. If you do not do your duties you could possibly go to jail and get in a lot of trouble. If you don't go to school you could get a truancy charge and possibly get put in placement. Always perform your duties!!! Always accept your responsibilities!!!!

Free or not free to smoke . . .

Smoking is very harmful, not just to smokers but to others around them. Second hand smoke is just like the person that is breathing it in is smoking a cigarette. Through my research, I have learned that second hand smoke can cause SIDS, which is Sudden Infant Syndrome. It also causes heart disease and lung cancer, and may cause other serious diseases. According to Net Wellness, “second hand smoke makes the platelets in your blood behave like those of a regular smoker, even a short time in a smoky room causes your blood platelets to stick together. Second hand smoke also damages the lining in your blood vessels in your heart; these bad changes can cause a deadly heart attack.” Yeah, it is harmful, but it is also very scary -- Second hand smoke is helping kill people that are breathing it in.

There are a lot of public places like bars, restaurants, and work places that are smoke free because a lot of people coming in and out breathing that air in. I think that is a great idea to band smoking in public places because many people don’t want to go in restaurants and have all that second hand smoke around them or their young children. I think they should just stop selling them all together, but we all know that will not happen so we just need to respect our world and the people in it and not smoke around anyone that doesn’t want smoke around them.

Why Not Leave The Judging Behind???

I am blogging on judging because I feel that there is a lot of judging going on these days in our classrooms, our homes, out on the streets, and in our families. Families are judging their children or other family members because of the color of the children, another family member’s boy/girlfriend’s skin color, or how a family member dresses.


There is just too much judging these days. Many times, judging turns into fighting because people hear about another person judging them, and they get mad. It just starts a big war. We don’t need any more of that in this world we live in. There is enough violence and other stuff that’s going on in this world. There are shootings, and it seems that everyone is killing everyone over little things. If we don’t stop, our world is going to come to an end. That’s not what we want is it? That sure is not what I want. It’s your choice and decision on what you want to do. But I know that in order for us to really have “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” we need to all help to stop all the judging.

*~Life after Placement~*

The reason I am in Crittenton is because I was drinking with my friends and not listening to my mother. My mom is a single mom and could not be with me every time I left the house. She trusted me and I lied to her all the time. I always told her I was going to hang out with younger kids, but I really was going to hang out with older friends. I have been locked up 3 times before this for being bad. This time I am going to change my life around. I am only 14 years old, and this is no life for me.



When I get out of here, I am going to go to school and not drink or do drugs. I will feel so much better waking up in my own bed. I hate not being able to see my family everyday. I only get phone calls every night, when my mom can even get through. I only get 3 out going phone calls a week and 2 in coming a day. I miss my family and friends. I want to be able to go home and hang out with my friends when I want or when my mom tells me I can. I want to be free again not be in placement all my teenage yrs. or in and out of jail my adult yrs. I want to change so I can go home and have a life. I have family out there waiting on me to change my life around I am not going to let them down. My little cousins and my nieces all look up to me. I don’t want them to look up to someone bad. I want to be a good role model not a bad person. I am going to change I have dreams and plans for my future.

*~Criminal Justice~*

*~Criminals~*

Im writing about criminals because people these days think it is cool to be a criminal. It is not cool to be a criminal at all. When you are a criminal people do not like you. You can hardly get a job. You got a bad reputation and people do not want you to be around them. People are scared of you. It is not cool to have people scared of you. I know many criminals.

I grew up in a bad town. Two years ago my cousins and I were sitting outside on my front porch and we saw the people standing out on the “block”, as they call it. Someone fired a gun and we heard it. This happened about 4 or 5 times a month. My family knows all of them down there and my parents did not want us around them. We to this day still live in that town. It is the same it’s not good at all. If you live in a bad town, you do not have to grow up like the bad people.

I made the mistake and started to hang out with them and I got in a lot of trouble. It is not cool at all. Please think of what I am saying and do not become a criminal. I have experiences and I do not want to see any more people grow up like that or become a criminal. You do not want to be in and out of placement or jail, that is no kind of life. Everyone needs a good life with their family and not away from them.

*~Where's the Love~*

*~Where’s the love~*

Where’s the love… is what this blog is about today because in this world I feel like we don’t have a lot of love. In this world, I feel like it’s mostly hate --we all hate each other, or it seems that way because we pick on others. Why can’t we all just get along? We all just need love.

Some people don’t have parents that love them, or parents who are on drugs, so they can’t support them. It’s not love when your children are growing up watching you do drugs or those types of things. We all need to get our lives together, and show people we love them. We can’t live in a world with our boyfriends/husbands beating on us. So where’s the love? It’s not love when you fight. Why would you think that’s love? If we had love in our lives and world, then it would be great and joyful.

Start thinking! Let’s try to make this world a better place.

We can make this a better place by helping each other. We need to make peace not war!!!
We all need to get along and love each other.

So let’s all start thinking now about what I’m saying and start trying to have love for each other.

*~Ain't gonna tie me down~*

“Ain’t gonna tie me down” is a song that we listen to in our classroom almost everyday.
I have a different meaning to it than what the song implies. My meaning is I have a goal and no one is going stop me from doing it. This is a good topic because most young people and some adults have a goal in life and throw it away for someone. You should have your goal and say, “I am going to do it no matter what anyone says.” Do not throw it away because your boyfriend wants you to or your friends say that’s stupid. They are not you; you have control of your life! They might not be there your whole life, and you threw it away for them. My mind is set to one goal already in life and no one is going to stop me from doing it.

You should make a goal in life and stick to it no matter what anyone says. Think of it this way: This is your life and you are going to be the one living it-- no one else-- so do things your way. I have had an experience in my life with a couple of my family members throwing their lives away for men/boys, friends, drugs, and alcohol. That’s no life to live. My aunt had a goal since she was 12 and she is now 38. She was doing well with it until she got with a boy that didn’t want her to do that, so she stopped. He is not in her life anymore, so she screwed up for someone that wasn’t even in her life for a long time. So I am speaking from experience. You do not have to listen to me, but please think about what I am saying and try.