Halloween

I am sitting on my front porch with an extremely large bowl filed to the hilt with candy. This years children seem even more excited to be trick or treating than last year's. The little cowboys, hulks, spidermen, ninjas, and ghosts made out of pillow cases take me back to Comanche's days of toting around a bucket and yelling, "twick o tweet!".
I also remember how he would lick his lips until they cracked while his dad and I would check his candy before he could eat any, and constantly repeating how he would just have to wait until we would finally feel confidant with a piece to give him until we were finished.
As I am thinking about this, I looked up to see a county sheriff's car drive slowly down my street. I'm glad they are patrolling but at the same time I can't help but to wonder if my son's children will have safe neighborhoods to knock on doors in a cute little costume.
When did we allow bad things to take over our children's lives? So many little ones suffer because the adults in our world (including me) can't figure out how to regain our right to protect t and provide for our families in a safe America.
Hopefully, the kids in classrooms across the nation are being taught to be better than us. Hopefully, they are given critical thinking skills that will allow them to solve the problems we are leaving them with. Between me, you and this blog... That just doesn't feel good enough.
So, what can we do to make it so our kids and their kids will be able to concentrate on their own created problems and not ours!? Sigh. Well, that seems to be the million dollar question, doesn't it?

I will think on this and so should you. If you come up with anything, then shout it from the rooftops! Don't let another day go by without letting other adults know so we can make the difference we are expecting our kids to do.