Letters to the Editor 08-25-2000
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Talk To Your Kids - Scouts And Demos - Signs Vandalized - Giving Sight
Talk To Your Kids
Editor, Times-Union:As parents and children enter the 2000-2001 school year, I would like to share some information I came across. During my short three years as Kosciusko County Sheriff's DARE Officer, I have met approximately 7,000 students, parents and some grandparents. I have three school corporations and the children from all three basically have the same wants and needs. The one that sticks out the most is: "I wish my parents or parent and even my grandparent would talk and spend personal time with me." As a parent of three myself I have sometimes fallen short on this one request.
A 20-year Seattle Police juvenile officer stated in "What Children Are Dying To Tell Their Parents"-- "Be honest with us." Kids want to be told the truth. It doesn't do any good to try to fool your kids. They know you better than you know yourself. They know when you're "telling it like it is" and when you're not. All kids want their folks to "be real." They will accept criticism better when it comes from a parent who's honest and up-front. If you catch your kids lying, cheating, stealing, swearing or using drugs, then discipline them. Kids need a discipline that says, "I love you." They need moms and dads who will set rules to protect them from harmful consequences. Not every parent has to deal with delinquent children, but every parent has ears to hear them. Now that these youngsters have spoken, are you willing to listen?
If your service club or parent support group would like a DARE officer as a guest speaker, call me. Also, I would like to invite any parent to sit in on a DARE lesson with your child.
Anyone may call me at 267-5667 or e-mail me at: [email protected]
Kids, be safe; I look forward to seeing all of you!
Timothy L. Sammons
DARE Officer
Kosciusko County Sheriff's Office
Scouts And Demos
Editor, Times-Union:I accessed the news article Mr. Wilhite wrote to you concerning the treatment of the Boy Scouts at the Democratic National Convention. I found the article under www.washtimes.com/national/default-20008172390.htm
Interesting article. I agree with Mr. Wilhite's statements. I have a son who is involved in Boy Scouts and happens to be an Eagle Scout. I would have never let him go to the Democratic Convention, as some of their platforms conflict with my family's religious beliefs.
Lanette Waldschmidt
Warsaw
via e-mail
Signs Vandalized
Editor, Times-Union:On Aug. 17, I drove around town to post my yard sale signs. On the 18th, the start of our Claypool festival, I sent my granddaughter and nephew out to check my signs. Over half of my signs had been destroyed the night I posted them. Even though the signs had been destroyed, I still did OK on my sale.
To the person or persons who destroyed the signs: You are very bored and, most likely, very ugly. If you are a child, your parents should keep you in a fence in your yard, so you don't get out and run the streets destroying other people's things. If you are an adult, then you are most likely headed nowhere really fast.
Brenda Kreis
Claypool
Giving Sight
Editor, Times-Union:Giving sight to another is possible!
You can cure blindness without ever going to medical school. You don't need a college degree, any special skills or even perfect vision. All you need is a desire to donate your eyes at death to an eye bank. Having signed the form on the back of your driver's license and informing your next of kin of your desire to do so will make it very likely that you will thereby give sight to two people.
Eye donations are used for cornea transplants, which are now over 90 percent successful in restoring or improving sight. But only a human eye can provide a healthy cornea. Synthetic ones have not yet proven successful. For more information on becoming an eye donor, call 800 232-4384.
Berniece H. Dwyer
Milford
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- Talk To Your Kids - Scouts And Demos - Signs Vandalized - Giving Sight
Talk To Your Kids
Editor, Times-Union:As parents and children enter the 2000-2001 school year, I would like to share some information I came across. During my short three years as Kosciusko County Sheriff's DARE Officer, I have met approximately 7,000 students, parents and some grandparents. I have three school corporations and the children from all three basically have the same wants and needs. The one that sticks out the most is: "I wish my parents or parent and even my grandparent would talk and spend personal time with me." As a parent of three myself I have sometimes fallen short on this one request.
A 20-year Seattle Police juvenile officer stated in "What Children Are Dying To Tell Their Parents"-- "Be honest with us." Kids want to be told the truth. It doesn't do any good to try to fool your kids. They know you better than you know yourself. They know when you're "telling it like it is" and when you're not. All kids want their folks to "be real." They will accept criticism better when it comes from a parent who's honest and up-front. If you catch your kids lying, cheating, stealing, swearing or using drugs, then discipline them. Kids need a discipline that says, "I love you." They need moms and dads who will set rules to protect them from harmful consequences. Not every parent has to deal with delinquent children, but every parent has ears to hear them. Now that these youngsters have spoken, are you willing to listen?
If your service club or parent support group would like a DARE officer as a guest speaker, call me. Also, I would like to invite any parent to sit in on a DARE lesson with your child.
Anyone may call me at 267-5667 or e-mail me at: [email protected]
Kids, be safe; I look forward to seeing all of you!
Timothy L. Sammons
DARE Officer
Kosciusko County Sheriff's Office
Scouts And Demos
Editor, Times-Union:I accessed the news article Mr. Wilhite wrote to you concerning the treatment of the Boy Scouts at the Democratic National Convention. I found the article under www.washtimes.com/national/default-20008172390.htm
Interesting article. I agree with Mr. Wilhite's statements. I have a son who is involved in Boy Scouts and happens to be an Eagle Scout. I would have never let him go to the Democratic Convention, as some of their platforms conflict with my family's religious beliefs.
Lanette Waldschmidt
Warsaw
via e-mail
Signs Vandalized
Editor, Times-Union:On Aug. 17, I drove around town to post my yard sale signs. On the 18th, the start of our Claypool festival, I sent my granddaughter and nephew out to check my signs. Over half of my signs had been destroyed the night I posted them. Even though the signs had been destroyed, I still did OK on my sale.
To the person or persons who destroyed the signs: You are very bored and, most likely, very ugly. If you are a child, your parents should keep you in a fence in your yard, so you don't get out and run the streets destroying other people's things. If you are an adult, then you are most likely headed nowhere really fast.
Brenda Kreis
Claypool
Giving Sight
Editor, Times-Union:Giving sight to another is possible!
You can cure blindness without ever going to medical school. You don't need a college degree, any special skills or even perfect vision. All you need is a desire to donate your eyes at death to an eye bank. Having signed the form on the back of your driver's license and informing your next of kin of your desire to do so will make it very likely that you will thereby give sight to two people.
Eye donations are used for cornea transplants, which are now over 90 percent successful in restoring or improving sight. But only a human eye can provide a healthy cornea. Synthetic ones have not yet proven successful. For more information on becoming an eye donor, call 800 232-4384.
Berniece H. Dwyer
Milford
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