Making Life a Bit Easier on Kids

Sometimes in a supermarket or a mall, or out on the street, I see a mom haul off a whack her kid and I sort of fast forward the picture and see two very estranged people five or ten years up the line, with mom and daughter or son at each others' throats or, even worse, not communicating to each other at all.



It makes for a miserable life.

And it is so totally unnecessary.

There is a brilliant chapter, a compilation of works by L. Ron Hubbard on the raising of children, in the Scientology Handbook

A Legacy of Help in South Asia

There's a story on the web site of the Church of Scientology of San Francisco about a really extraordinary young woman. A Scientologist from Santa Barbara (who was also a member of the Scientology Church of San Diego while she was a college student there), has done so much to help the children of Sri Lanka.

The article is in Freedom Magazine and it shows how much one person can do when they have the dedication and the skill.

New Anti-Drug Booklets

The Scientology News site has a story about the new anti-drug publications released by the Church of Scientology International.

Church's 10 million drug information booklets lend key support to UN's "Drugs are not Child's Play" program

LOS ANGELES, CA — Bolstering UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's call to "arm people with the information they need to say no to drugs," the Church of Scientology International (CSI) today announced a major step-up in its two-decade-long "Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life" worldwide drug awareness campaign.

Just one week after the UN's Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released its 2006 World Drug Report on the International Day against Drug Abuse at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, the Los Angeles-based Church of Scientology International has unveiled 10 new drug information booklets for use in the world's largest-ever grassroots anti-drug initiative.>>

Human Trafficking

I read this story on the Church of Scientology of San Francisco web site. I had no idea the number of children being trafficked in slavery. Here's what it said:

"With an estimated 1.2 million children trafficked every year, the need to put an end to modern slavery was the emphasis of a ceremony held in Brussels to honor four "Human Rights Heroes" in Brussels last week. The event was co-organized by Youth for Human Rights International and the European Foundation for Human Rights and Tolerance with the support of United Sikhs International, the Church of Scientology International European Human Rights Office and the Help the Needy Foundation of Bulgaria."

I think the work Youth for Human Rights is doing to promote universal human rights education can make a fundamental difference in people's attitudes and it a first, basic step to bringing about human rights.

I've seen some of the public service announcements and they really make human rights real to you. Three of them just went up as podcasts (you can find them by searching for Youth forHuman Rights International). I'm really proud that the Church of Scientology International produced these ads.