Janine+R’s+OpEd+Article



__**KIDS RULE**__

People always say that kids are so naive and don’t understand what it is like to be an adult, that children don’t understand how life works or how it is supposed to be. Most adults believe that they are right about everything and that children just “don’t get it”. Well, I disagree. Maybe it isn’t the adults in the world that have life figured out; I believe it is instead the kids of this world that are truly wise and understanding of how the world should work. I believe that society had corrupted the adults in this world so much that they actually think they know better than kids. Well guess what? They don’t. You don’t see kids fighting wars until they start to imitate what they see adults doing, or become racist until they hear their mother or father use a racial slur. And stress, oh my god stress! Kids aren’t stressed about anything like adults are; they enjoy doing what they want to do and don’t do something if they don’t love doing it just because it is what is “supposed to be done”. If you ask me I say the kids shouldn’t look up to the adults in this world because honestly this world is messed up. Instead it is the leaders and adults of this world that should look to kids on how to act because frankly kids are they only people in this world that aren’t (for the time being) corrupted by the hatred that is incorporated into life nowadays. Not to mention the greed that is spewed everywhere for everyone to see. Kids are pure, and it is the adults that influence them to become differently so.

Hitler wasn’t the mass murderer we all know when he was a child. He was a normal middle classed Austrian, who turned into one of the most hated creatures on the planet by the time he was 50. Saddam Hussein was beaten when he was a child by his step father after his biological father died and his mother remarried. Osama Bin Laden had at least 58 siblings and his parents were divorced almost right after he was born. These men were all great enemies of the United States, but they didn’t start out that way. They were influence by the world, and so they had influence on the world. I’m not saying that they themselves weren’t responsible for the crimes they committed, but honestly we all know they didn’t grow up to be monsters all on their own. That’s not how it works. So next time you adults think about how little kids know about life and how naive they are, stop. It is the adults that are corrupted into believing they know what’s best for the world, but they don’t always.