People always say there is no greater gift in life than the gift of a child; to create something so magical and rewarding out of love and kindness, to love someone so much that you take something you can’t hold in your hand only your heart, and turn it into something real, something worth taking care of every single day. A child is quite possibly the greatest thing ever and the reason is so simple; they are the future.

Children are the most important building blocks for a successful future. Working with children has truly opened my eyes to these incredible qualities that children seem to possess. When they are born they are a blank slate, completely open to be molded and drawn all over. This is important. I’m sure you have heard before that racism, sexism, negative opinions are not a born quality, these are opinions that are created at home. Racism starts at home, a child is not born hating blacks or whites, a person is not born believing that Asian people are super smart or that Mexicans like to mow lawns. Children are taught these things and this is where the problem begins.

Children are being born every second, every minute of every day. And it needs to be repeated, it needs to be permanently implanted in every adult’s mind that children are the future, that children need every ounce of attention and effort to be put into them because for us to mess up and not care while they are young will only backfire on everyone eventually. Eventually, we all die and eventually everyone in the government right now will be gone and it will be time to replace them all. And it will be these children to do it. How can we have an uneducated governor or a racist president? Where will that lead our country?

Children need an education and that is an argument I'll fight until the day I die. Children should be taught the important things, they should be taught to open their minds and be provided ways to improve their cognitive functioning. Proper grammar so our future leaders are educated. Music or some artistic skill in order to keep their brains open and allow more cognitive functions to take place in the brain. Children need to be educated on the world and how it works and what ideas don’t work so we don’t have any history repeats. Children need to be taught respect and love so we can stop these horrible mass shootings and the racism and sexism we still even to this day encounter. Children need to be taught how to be proper people because in the end, they will be the ones deciding our laws when we have grown too old to do so. They will be the ones fighting for our country or caring for you while you are in the hospital with poor health. The children of today are the caretakers of tomorrow and we desperately need to respect them as such.