Heart Hope by Olga

Years ago in one of my early teaching assignments, I was placed in summer school working with a group of young women who were in the special school for pregnant and parenting teens. I was excited about the new challenge and began with the idea that I was going to make a difference in their lives, but I think the opposite took place—I was changed.  My expectations were that we would be one happy family as I taught them about parenting, but their plan was to make my life miserable. I didn’t understand how they could say and do the hateful things to me and I wanted to quit, but in order to secure a full-time position for the next year I had to return each day. I didn’t want to; in fact, I would cry all the way home and plead with God asking Him not to make me go back, but instead of releasing me from the job, He gave me instructions to “Kill them with kindness.” When an unkind remark was made, I would respond with an encouraging statement. When they would mock me to their friends, I...

Did you know that McDonald's is being sued by a consumer group for putting prizes in their Happy Meals because it is an illegal marketing ploy? For quite sometime now I have felt that America has become “sue happy.” Anyone and everyone can sue anyone for anything, but this one just seems to take the cake. Do you really think that kids want the Happy Meal just for the toy that they get? If it is the prize that children are after then why is it that many of the toys never leave the restaurant and even more end up being left in the car, never to enter the child's house? In my opinion, there are other reasons that kids want that particular product and it is not the toy. Maybe they like the burgers and fries, maybe the parents are too tired to cook after working all day and it is an easy dinner, or just maybe they want to go to the cool playground and the food is just and afterthought. And there is the also the issue of the size of the meal--children do not want or need to have the ...