- good nutrition
- welcoming, comfortable homes
- safe neighborhoods
- quality education
- healthy recreation
- positive health care
- time to play and be a child
- adequate funds
And then if those powers were to truly believe in this, the next step would be figuring out how to make this happen for children in both arenas.
If we lead with what's best for children, we would spend money much differently. There would be a lot less money, if any, spent on weapons, and a lot more money spent on good gardens, playgrounds, natural spaces, education, and building good homes.
Instead, because children lack power, they are often overlooked and sometimes the victims of errant policy and decision making.
Today has been a discouraging day in the news. First the Governor of Alabama signed a very strict abortion law--a law that has the potential to harm lives rather than protect lives. I am a staunch supporter of the sanctity of life. Ideally I would like life protected on all fronts and in all ways, however, I know the world we're living in, and it's not that simple.
For the Governor and lawmakers in Alabama to think that they can step into the very personal and complex decision that abortion is for a woman who is considering that and the physician that is working with her, is crazy and oppressive. When big complex medical decisions are made, decisions that affect the most personal sides of ourselves, there is no one-size-fits-all decision. Rather than strict laws, there should be tremendous support for making positive choices about life--choices that are life enriching rather than decisions that get too personal about individual rights and freedoms.
Also Trump's continual war-mongering, self-serving, speak and ridicule related to the values we hold as a free nation are discouraging, dangerous, and worrisome. He and his cronies are tearing our good country apart piece by piece. Rather than leading with positive ideas, good collaboration, intelligence, experience, and a will to serve the people, Trump, his cronies, and their me-first, self-serving policies, decisions, and speak continually serve to burden the American people rather than serve them. Day after day his outbursts of lies, exaggeration, greed, and harmful quick-fix ideas bring our country down and display infidelity to the oath of office. I believe that impeachment should start sooner than later and it should bring to light the many ways that Trump has been unfaithful to his oath of office.
We all have to push ourselves forward to do what is right and good--we have to dig deeply and learn broadly about what to do with the best of our ability. As we do that, if we work with the perspective of what is best for children, we will certainly direct our decisions in the right way.
