HELPING OUT PARENTS
You know your average friends. They are children like you, but maybe some help out parents all day while some laze around all day. Well, the hardworking ones are appreciated by their parents. Do you know why? Every day, adults are stressed out with work, so they understand you helping them. Think of yourself as a lazy kid, playing around all day. Your parents have to take care of you and do their job, forcing them to work harder because they have to spend more time with you. They have to pay for electricity, hot water, internet, and food. What if something in the house breaks down? They have to pay for it. By distracting your parents, they can't focus on their work, and their work affects their job, and, of course, they earn money from their job. So basically, if you misbehave way too much, it might affect your life.
If you are lazy and you know it, you might want to change. If you have no homework, you can fit doing chores into your schedule so your parents won't have to do it. Also, you can't expect your parents to get everything you want, as you can't take things for granted.
If your parents have a lot of money and you think misbehaving is okay, being spoiled doesn't only affect your life at home, it will also change your social life too. Bossing people around and telling them what to do are not very good traits for making new friends.
Anyway, I'm not going to make this too long, since this is written by a child, and read by children. Only adults read those looooooooooong articles. I know sometimes you just have the urge to laze around all day though, so you just have to try to help at least, because an adult's job is much more complicated than school and homework.
HELPING OUT PARENTS
So, this is new to both of us, right? I'm going to try to make a story to explain why, and how I'm going to "wriggle a lesson" into another kid's (like me) brain. So, I'm going to keep this simple. There was a girl named Julia and another girl named Hazel. Every morning for breakfast, Julia complained that she ate honey vanilla cereal too often and that her mom should buy different cereals. Pretend the world around you is cheap. A house? One dollar. Vegetables? One cent. So anyway, because of that, Julia's parents lost 5 cents every week. Their money soon went from $700 to $689 (plus the money for electricity, hot water, etc.). But Hazel finished her cereal and didn't complain, so her parents only needed to spend a few cents every month, so their money was $698. Then, for Christmas, Julia got a game that she complained was too boring. So, her parents desperately trying to make her happy got her a new game that she complained was too boring. This went on for pretty long, and by then, her parents only had $680. Although Hazel didn't like the game she got, she thanked her parents and put the game in her drawer to play as a family on Valentine's Day. Then, on Valentine's Day, Julia got a box of chocolates with a note that said "Hope you enjoy it!" Julia didn't want chocolate, she wanted fudge. So, she threw away the box of chocolates, went downstairs, and told her parents that she wanted fudge. So, her family bought her fudge, and by then, they had lost almost twenty cents. Hazel got a box of chocolates too, and as she went downstairs to thank her parents, her mom said that they had earned enough money to move into a bigger house, so Hazel tried to help. While her parents lugged their stuff into a truck, Hazel did the chores, so her parents wouldn't have to. After they moved into a new house, her mom had a baby, and the entire family had a happy life after that. Meanwhile, Julia's family was not doing so well. Julia's parents had spent all their money on her, so they had to move into a smaller house, with no TV and only mattresses to sleep on. Not even a couch. Her parents couldn't keep up with the money they had to pay for, well... everything. So, her mom and dad started to work harder, but Julia still acted spoiled. So, yeah, that's all a kid has for a lesson. Byeeeeeeeee!
STEALING
Stealing is NOT good. If I were younger than I am, I would say, "stealing isn't fair". Well, guess what? You learn this in three words: life isn't fair. But you don't want to get sent to court and all that non-children stuff, so don't steal. Prison has its arms wide open to embrace you.
Say... your soul is 100% angel. You steal somebody's phone, and the 100% turns into 95%. You keep on doing this until high school, and... BOOM! 3rd grade: angel. 9th grade: the devil. Stealing can change who you are, what you like to do, and your future. Maybe in third grade, you wanted to become Elon Musk 2.0, but in ninth grade, you don't know what you want. Third grade may be too early to start planning your future, but it's better early than never.
You take someone's money. They either scream until their vocal cords burst, beat you up, call the police, or think you are an old friend borrowing money, but that has, like, zero chance of happening. If you don't think that's bad... just don't try it to see what happens.
This question may or may not determine your future: good or bad. That may be very, very vague, but at least you'll know! Will you do anything bad: join a gang, steal, spray paint walls (illegally), and so on?
Or will you stay the innocent person you are?
Maybe you haven't decided yet. That's okay, especially if you don't know what any of the words I just said meant.
I want to become a good person. Your future is up to you, so just make sure you don't steal—and if you stole already:
1. Stop stealing immediately.
2. Give back whatever you stole.
3. Make sure you no longer have the urge to steal something.
Just remember: no stealing=brighter future.
I don't even want to see what happens when I steal...
If you've stolen before, I genuinely have no idea what to say to that.
STEALING
Who's a fan of Hazel and Julia? We'll do them next time. However... *evil laugh* I have something much more... I don't know the word to describe it.
Now, there are two other kids: Rowan and Cameron. Rowan went to a store where he really wanted a pack of gum, when he was young. His parents told him that they wouldn't get it for him. They said, "If you want it, then steal it yourself." Poor Rowan thought his parents were being literal, and stole the pack of lime passion fruit twist Trident gum. Later, he got into trouble.
Cameron was told to do the same, too, also thinking that his parents were being literal. But Rowan had a good heart, and never stole again. Cameron thought whenever he wanted something and couldn't have it, he was supposed to steal. Cameron grew a habit of stealing, while Rowan stayed your average student. Eventually, Cameron grew up to become homeless, depending on stealing to get him money, since his stealing habits got him rejected from a lot of schools.
Rowan got into good schools, and got a job as a singer-songwriter. Cameron lived out on the streets, stealing. What you do in the past can affect your future, so don't be like Cameron. Also, sorry to anybody out there named Cameron or Julia. Just because your name is one of my unsuccessful characters doesn't mean that you will grow up to be unsuccessful.
STEALING (something different)
This section looks the same as the last one but is entirely different. Last time, I was talking about stealing items. But I missed out on a few things. Today, I will talk about one of them: ideas.
Say... if you watched a YouTube video about gift ideas, and used that idea, that is entirely okay, but it is probably preferred to give credit. Look, I don't know all the things in the world. I'm just a kid.
Since I'm not a parent's dream kid, I watch YouTube too. If a YouTuber did a 24-hour challenge, and another YouTuber steals that idea, now THAT is idea stealing. We don't want to do that, do we?
I'm just going to take the time to say: You don't have to be entirely perfect; just try.
Oh, great. now I feel like a hypocrite.
Anyway, imagine a photo is an idea. The image (on Google) has a copyright, right? (I don't even know how to put this. Grammarly gave this suggestion.) So if you steal it, something really bad happens. You probably have to pay or something.
Actually, if you want to take another YouTuber's idea, you may need to pay, or give them credit.
You all know stealing items is bad. That goes the same for ideas. Ideas must be given credit and cannot be taken credit for by you if you did not originally create them. You'll probably get fined or something.
But what do I know?
I'm just here to talk about what I know. Plus, not everyone's perfect.
Ideas are something created originally, or someone's seed that sprouted from another plant, the brain. If you steal the idea, you are stealing that blooming and beautiful plant that someone else grew, that someone else created. And everyone will come to your house to congratulate you while the person who grew the plant tries to convince everyone that you're lying. But no one wants to hear it.
If you steal ideas, you are simply making one more person on Earth feel bad and become bad.
So please don't steal.
Now, you might be thinking, "But I don't get any consequences. How is it bad?"
You ever heard those cheesy, inspirational quotes, like, kindness spreads wherever it goes, but so does hatred (I made that up)? Well, it's the same story here. They might resort to... not-so-good methods to get their credit.
Soo... yeah. Don't try it.
Understanding other people
You might think other people's (or kids) situation might be better than yours, but it might not be. Don't go on talking about how hard your life is, and how you envy a certain kid IN FRONT of that certain kid.
They might be going through their own difficulties too. Don't be quick to want to trade lives with them.
Is there that one kid in your class that's always happy, always smiling, and always joking around? They may be using happiness and silliness as a mask, to hide their true feelings. They might have something going on at home, or another situation that you probably don't want to be in.
Maybe you think your situation is bad enough, but don't be quick to assume. There's always someone struggling more than you.
And there's definitely someone struggling more than me. I mean, I have a Desktop Computer, and I'm getting a Macbook and phone after summer break.
There are some kids who don't even have access to clean water or food. So yeah, my life (and yours) could be going a lot worse right now. Be grateful for what you have, and that you're not in another less fortunate kid's position.
Understanding other people
Today, I'm introducing two new characters!