Working with children is both rewarding and incredibly frustrating.

It is rewarding because you know you are there giving  the chance to explore themselves and be better prepared for tomorrow.  Frustrating because at time, you have the inevitable child who could do better, doesn't do better and thinks he will still do good when he is heading straight for disaster.

It's hard at times to see the amount of work and faith you put into to a child who just doesn't care, or just doesn't get it.  You cringe, you sometimes feel like crying watching this run away train out of control, seeing the impending disaster.  I know it keeps me awake at night.  And the problem is they cannot see it.  How could they.  They are convinced they are right and have invented new trends and new ways of thinking.  LOL! (laugh out loud for those of you not IM (instant messaging) inclined).  If they only knew what we were doing 25 years before!  It's the same thing all over again.

So what do you do?  I guess you keep at it, hoping there will be a clicking moment or an "Ah ha!" moment.  And there might be. 

I am facing this tough challenge of bringing a child into self-realization and understand that money doesn't come easy unless you are super talented and hard working.  Though he has some talent, he is not a hard worker.  He wants to quit high school at a very early age and tells me there are people who have made millions without education.  Yes, but they also hard workers with a vision.

It's very tough seeing children like that.  How do you bring them to see what is happpening?  How do you make them see that it's a give and receive universe?  You can only go at it a little bit at a time, hoping there will be a tipping point.  In the meantime, it's like watching a run away train going into the middle of the desert that could be well stranded for a long time without resources.