Talk to your children about...

So, I was doing some reading for my English 112 (Argument Based Research) class, and I came across a familiar adage in an article on texing and driving. The phrase was one that we've all heard a million times: "Parents should talk to their children about [Insert Potential Problem Here]"
Isn't there a million things that we've got to talk to our kids about?
Talk to your kids about smoking dope, talk to your kids about drinking, talk to your kids about texting and driving- No, I've got a better idea. It's crazy, but it just might work.
Why don't we stop telling our kids exactly what to do, and teach them to make good decisions on their own so they can get along in the real world. Let's teach them to think, not memorize, compute and recite.
I mean, they go to school every day to memorize information so they can take a test on it and forget it- they're not taught to analyze, think, create. 

#PurpleBuddy

What usually goes in the first post on a blog? A little bit of who the author is, I suppose, followed by a summary of what may be expected from that author...

And so- introductions!

Most of you will already know me, so I'll not spend too much time on this part... Name's Triss. I'm a college student at a small community number, getting a degree in Fine Arts, Art in the spring, then probably transferring elsewhere. I'm twenty years old and the second oldest of six kids. I was home schooled through all of elementary, middle and high school.

As for the blog itself: 

This is not a political blog, this is not a spiritual blog, this is not an apocalypse survival blog [though I do have one of those]. This blog really has no rhyme or reason: it's only purpose is to allow me to have a spot that I can go to just think and post things. Ever had that happen? You just needed to think, but your brain wasn't forming sentences right?

I guess the reason I'm writing it in blog format here is because I sort of want a dated copy of what I'm thinking, and I need these thoughts to be accessible from other places.

...it also helps to imagine someone else listening. 

I swear, I'm not going to be that emo girl that raves about how the world sucks and she wants to die. I'm not that kind. You'll have to forgive me if I start on a rant about my siblings, or one sibling in particular (We're going through a rough spot that I've not fully adjusted to yet... Not sure if I really should adjust to it, in all honesty.) ...Actually, I've got a whole lot of things in flux right now. My parents are working on moving to Thailand with three of my younger siblings, my elder sister is getting married, and my other brother and I are looking at staying at the family house for a while.

Anyway, thanks for tuning in, expect the unexpected.

..::Triss::..