by Ryszard Krasowski

Created on: June 02, 2008   Last Updated: January 07, 2012

LITTLE THINGS

The "No Child Left Behind" program sounds like a good plan. Better late than never. After more then 200 years of hard thinking, people came to the conclusion that each person in this country should know how to read, write and even count. However, it is mind-boggling that it took so long to realize that the more people know, the better. Maybe it was done this way on purpose. After all, it is very easy to manipulate the minds of people if they are kept in the dark.

One of the reports about illiteracy states that there are 30 million people in the United States who do not know how to read or write, not to mention count. Taking into consideration the population of other countries, it looks like no one in Australia is able to do these three simple things. All of Saudi Arabia has the same problem. New Zealand, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, Austria and Norway combined are kept in the dark too. Isn't that something? And all of this takes place in the country that claims to be the best in the world. Not only the best in these three areas at everything. Something does not add up.

In everyday life there are little things that provide us with clues what is wrong, but for some reason people do not seem to notice them or, if they see these obvious signs, they are ignored.

Parents talk about the "No Child Left Behind" program and it seems to be a good idea. Children should learn. They should learn from their parents. They should learn from someone who knows better. But very often it looks like not the children, but the parents who are the ones lost and left behind.

There are little things in our life that, if not taken care of, become bigger things, and after a while they become huge problems that the adults do not know how to solve. Different regulations, restrictions, rules, bills and whatnot are implemented, but very often they contradict each other. And even if they are strict, people will find a way to go around them. These rules and regulations are created by parents who, if they did not learn how to live life from their parents, they would not be able to make any positive difference in their own children's behavior.

Let's take just a few of these little things for consideration.

There are pretty big signs on the walls of school gymnasiums telling us that no food and drinks are allowed in the gym. Guess what? Children shoot hoops and parents, seating on the side of the gym, instead of clapping, they hold cups with coffee, tea, soda and even beer. They

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