Dear Kiddos,

I bet you're sitting there on your phone reading this and thinking nothing of what I am about to say. I hope you take one thing out of it and that is to enjoy--enjoy everything life has to offer and don't rush it. Let every moment become a memory. I am currently a junior at the University of New Hampshire and it feels like just yesterday was my first day of sixth grade. Days start moving fast, then the weeks, and the next thing you know you'll no longer be a child. You'll miss it and crave to have one more day like that. Well that is if you do your childhood right.

I hope you are taking something out of what I am saying. I grew up and loved every moment of my childhood and that’s the most important part. I had amazing times and I think people of my generation can agree. It scares me to see today’s generation flying through life with no care. Fifth graders are receiving iPhone’s, sixth graders are going on dates, and eighth graders are drinking.

Times have changed and it’s nerve-wracking to see that youth is wasting their life on the things that don’t matter such as technology and materialistic things. I grew up during a time where running around outside and playing with neighbors was the norm. Today’s kids enjoy sitting on a couch in silence looking on their iPhone or iPad.

If you take one thing out of what I said, I would like it to be that these years as a child are the most impactful years of your life. You will remember them forever and want to go back to them when you’re older, but you have to make them worthy of missing. So get up off that couch, grab a basketball and go play, enjoy the presence of other kids your age, and enjoy every minute of it.