How to be a Good Kid in a Rotten Apple World (Sample)
In her newest release, How to be a Good Kid in a Rotten Apple World, Carole Marsh Longmeyer fearlessly tackles challenging topics, while offering an optimistic guide on how to be a good kid in today’s trip-you-up world.
In her newest release, How to be a Good Kid in a Rotten Apple World, Carole Marsh Longmeyer fearlessly tackles challenging topics, while offering an optimistic guide on how to be a good kid in today’s trip-you-up world.
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Carole Marsh Longmeyer<br />
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Today, <strong>be</strong><strong>in</strong>g bad can <strong>in</strong>volve words that hurt someone<br />
so badly that they kill themselves. Be<strong>in</strong>g bad can <strong>in</strong>volve<br />
dr<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g, do<strong>in</strong>g drugs, bully<strong>in</strong>g, jo<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g a gang, or<br />
many other th<strong>in</strong>gs. Some of these th<strong>in</strong>gs you can go <strong>to</strong><br />
jail for. Jail is not cool, fun, or excit<strong>in</strong>g. (Ask someone<br />
who’s <strong>be</strong>en there.)<br />
Be<strong>in</strong>g bad <strong>to</strong>day can ru<strong>in</strong> your life <strong>to</strong>morrow—as <strong>in</strong><br />
forever.<br />
I don’t th<strong>in</strong>k you are <strong>Good</strong> one day and Bad the next.<br />
It’s a process, a habit. If you have the <strong>Good</strong> Habit,<br />
keep it up. If you have the Bad Habit, break it <strong>be</strong>fore<br />
it breaks you.<br />
The Gray Area of Bad<br />
Where’s the precise divid<strong>in</strong>g l<strong>in</strong>e <strong>be</strong>tween good and bad?<br />
LOL, there’s not one. A good plan is if you f<strong>in</strong>d youself<br />
mov<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong><strong>to</strong> the gray zone, move back out. You can<br />
piddle around <strong>in</strong> the gray zone and may<strong>be</strong> get lucky.<br />
(Of course, a lot of kids do<strong>in</strong>g drugs for the first time<br />
found out this was not a precise science s<strong>in</strong>ce they<br />
ended up at the morgue.) That gray area is not as wide<br />
as you might wish. People who are “accomplices” and
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