I Love My Music: The Entertainment Industries Messages

          
              Your walking down the street and a car passes by, it's music blasting through the windows. You are really diggin the rhythm, but you're hearing something else. Is it the tempo? No it's the lyrics, the rapper is talking about how fighting this guy who was messing with him. You know that there are better ways to solve the problem than with violence. So, what happened to the song you were listening to a few seconds ago? Nothing. Lucky for you, your smart enough to realize that song isn't being positive. It's telling you how to ruin your future, and become a criminal. It's not fun or exciting. Though music isn't the only place you get bad ideas, also from tv, your favorite character is standing up for themselves, well that's good. But, take a second look at how they're behaving. They're insulting them back, and putting themselves down to the bullys level. Just because someone's your role model or someone you look up to doesn't mean they always do the right thing. Entertainment can teach you lessons that are wrong or right, so stick to real life to become successful, and you'll be alright.

Peace and Love,

-Karolyn

Amanda sums up Kids' Day's Boston Police Department Visit

   
             Your waiting to go to the bathroom at Stop&Shop, but someone is inside. You don't know who's inside, so you open the door thinking you are just going to use the bathroom and a then a stranger tries to talk to you. This story was told to the group by one of my peers after the Boston Police Department came to speak to the Kids' Day Program.
              You should never talk to starngers because it is dangerous. When a stranger approaches you walk away or call the police, so it won't happen again!  It's your choice not mines, but I think you should ask for help.
               Today 2/16/10,  police officers came to Kids' Day. They talk about alot of things. The first thing was bullying. They said that you can bully though your actions, you can bully by cyber bullying and others. I  learned a lot. They spoke about other things too. I think this is something you can pass onto other people because it will help alot.

Thanks for reading my blog post!

-Amanda

The Boston Police Departments Kids' Day Visit

  Today two police officers named Officers Ramsey and Rodriguez came to our afterschool program. They talked to us about bullying. Something that is happening everywere and very often. Also they talked about sexual harrasment.
   They taught us alot about bullying. Some of the things they talked about was cyber bullying. They told us that it was not nice to bully people over the internet because there are many different consequences. Some of them include bringing police officers into the situation. And you can't lie about it either because they have it all on record and you could be charged if the victim reports you to the police. Officer. Ramsey also discussed an incident where someone was being cyber bullied and the girl committed suicide.
     Some of the things they talked about while talking about sexual harrasment was how you can be charged if you lift your shirt or show any of your private body parts in public. Also about how it is not good to show other people your body parts. Unless they are your parents or your doctor you should not be showing it to anyone.
     Anyway we learned alot when the police officers came and we are very glad that they came. Now, we can think twice about the consequences that will happen if we make bad choices.

-Abby