Hey... they are our future, aren't they?

I have decided to raise other people's children. That means when they are in public and they are doing something that should be addressed, I will be addressing it. For the good of the whole wide world. And when they are doing something worth praise, I shall also praise them. It takes a village, after all. And kids really seem to need us.
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Last night at the climbing gym some cub scouts were beating the ever loving tar out of our foosball table. Several of the dads were deeply engrossed in a conversation close by. I kid you not. They were about FIVE feet away.
I stopped the ruckus and asked the kids if they could afford to replace the foosball table if it broke. When the predictable answer was no, I asked if they'd mind treating the foosball table the way it was intended to be treated.
The ruckus stopped.
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My sister had to pick up her best friend's daughter's best friend from Prom on Saturday. See Kathy is my sister's best friend and Becca is her daughter. Becca and her best friend, Taylor, were going to prom and, oops, they drank too much on the way there. Taylor got caught. The cops asked her to call her folks. Her mom, who had previously told her that she was doing her own thing on Saturday because it was her first day off in months and she wasn't going to waste it on her daughter's prom, did not answer her phone. Her father cussed her out and hung up. So she called Kathy. Kathy had been drinking in her own home with her husband and was not fit to drive. And so my sister drove to get the sobbing teenager, took her to get some food and then reunited her with the other teens when Prom was over.
Kids drink. And not doing something violently dangerous was a good choice on Taylor's part. And my sister? Well, she didn't really want to play chauffeur on a Saturday night. But we must do what we must do. And Taylor is part of her village.
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Shine, however, would just like you to raise your children better. So she has this advice. Take it or leave it.
But kids have got to get a leg up on life from someone.
It's for the village's sake, trust me.