RESIGNATION........... I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an ADULT. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old again. I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four-star restaurant. I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make a sidewalk with rocks. I want to think M&M's are better than money because you can eat them. I want to drink kool-aid, eat lemonheads and red hots with my friends. I don't want to change clothes because I got a little dirty and my friends didn't care cause they were even dirtier than me. I want to enjoy everyday like its summer vacation. I want to return to a time when life was simple. When all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and TV show theme songs, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care. All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset. I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good. I want to believe that anything is possible. I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again, like a new hot wheel car every Saturday. I want to live simple again. I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more illness, and loss of loved ones. I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination and mankind. I want to "dream of Jeannie", and "bewitched". I want to go to "fantasy island" and take a trip on "the love boat". I want to be in the roller derby and actually believe the three stooges are real. So...here's my checkbook and my car-keys, my credit card bills and my 401K statements, my pager, my cell phone, my palm pilot, my fax machine and my dvd player and last but not least my mortgage book. I am officially resigning from adulthood....... AUTHOR UNKNOWN
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
Children have a right to be children.
Children have a right to have fun.
Children have a right to have feelings and ideas, and to express them.
Children have a right to ask for what they need.
Children have a right to some secrets.
Children have a right to say no.
Children have a right to privacy.
Children have a right to make certain choices.
Children have a right to be respected.
Children have a right to be accepted for who they are.
Children have a right to be nurtured and cared for.
Children have a right to a support system, including peers and supportive adults.
Children have a right to know their limits.
Children have a right to speak and be heard.
Children have a right to ask questions and be answered.
Children have a right to rewards and natural consequences.
Children have a right to be protected from abuse and neglect.
Children have a right to a relationship with their parents.
Children have a right to be protected from knowledge beyond their years
Children have a right not to worry about grown-up problems.
Children have a right to be happy.
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