Those things make me sad too. I also get very sad about abused and neglected animals. I think it’s healthy to be a cry baby (I am one too sometimes).

Nice thought-provoking entry. Thanks for visiting mine and have a good weekend, Annie

Hi Julie,

Those are very sad things. Anything involving children lacking in protection makes me sad too. I am also pretty emotional sometimes. It’s actually a good release for me to cry, as long as I’m not in a situation where I don’t want to show emotion.

I hope you have a good weekend, Carver

That’s a very true post you have for thsi week.

Hope you weekend is going well.

yr entry is an eye opener. but things r not so different here in my town. but in a small town, life is safer. fortunately

Julie, your take this week on the theme is pretty unique and sure got some of us parents thinking..

How true. A good take on the theme. Enjoy your weekend.

Oh yes Julie all of these things also make me sad too. It is simply deplorable that in this day and time that we as a global community cannot come together and help each other all over the world.

I also live a long way from my children and it makes me very sad that we only get to visit each other maybe once a year.

This is a excellent post for the theme.

I’m only nodding in agreement with your statements here. Such a great write up with this theme and your photos! Well done!

Julie, thanks for coming by my sad blog post… mine sounds so trivial compared to yours.. Even though I was sad at having to pay a bill tody, at least I am able to pay it… God has been so good to me!

I understand your frustration and sadness for the children. We have the same thing in the richest country of the world. Parents, who are not doing their job, because of drugs, home breakups, or other different reasons… and the children have to bear the burdens..

This weeks theme sucks, just so you know, you did an excellent job with it.

Oh dear, this really is a sad serious post. I don’t think I would like to be confronted by these things every day and feel so helpless. If only it could be different for these children.
Have a good weekend Julie and cherish your own and keep them safe and well.

very great post for this week theme. It is sad to watch children that can not go to school because they don’t enough money for that….

Please stop at my PH post also: in HERE or HERE Thanks

It makes me sad and angry to see such things Julie. It angers me that so many children, so much potential is let go to waste. Imagien how many great scientists or atists are lost to the world this way?

I have lived in the Philippines and there is so much waste of potential for young people. Then many of those who are successful have to leave to pursue a career.

What a great post for this week Julie.

Happy Weekend.

Yes, truly sad how they are forced into a life like that… especially youngsters who should be looking at a bright future and not dusty roads.

You’re so right…all these are sad.

Thanks for the lovely comment on my sad….

Hope your weekend is terrific.

Great thought and photos. Yes, much of what you described makes us sad and angry.

Oh i feel same way ma’am Julie its sad to see those kids like that our government did not do anything for that kids i don’t know why. Thanks for stopping by…Happy weekend.

great take on sadness.

I”ll be heading over to Manila with my school kids for a community projects. Yes, the sight of squatter kids does make me feel sad.

Such touching photos. We should all be sad when we look at them.

The use and abuse of children and other weaker things make me more MAD than SAD. Grrrr! I live in the US, and don’t see these things here (but there is child sex trafficking here). GRRRRR. One day, righteousness will dwell on earth again.

I did Photo Hunters today, too. I hope you get a chance to visit and post your link.
http://newyorktraveler.net/photo-hunters-sad/

I guessed sometimes can’t be help….
Today I was watching a movie about human trafficking and somehow this post brought my mind to it once again O_o

The plight of children in such circumstances is truly sad. It is hard to imagine those conditions exist throughout the world even today.

Baker
(thanks for dropping by and the comments)

Sad, sad, sad. It’s good to know there are still some tender hearts in the world.

A lot of the things that make you feel sad give the downs too, TJ.

Ang daming heart-breaking things in these world. Still ….

Lots of things make me feel sad. Focused on just one of them for my entry this week. Otherwise, I would feel too despondent this week…

My heart goes out to those children who are forced to work at such tender ages.

ay teacher Juli, I feel the same as you do about the last one, I havent seen my parents for 3 years now!

All your posts are sad reality….

Feel the same as you. Those things make me sad to.

Have a good week!

It makes me very sad too when I see our richest treasure -children- being involved in misery… how sad.
Well done, Julie!

great entry….
very sad and heartbreaking……

I’m a crybaby as well. I get all choked up with a song, a thought, an image. Heck, even commercials make me cry!

As always, great post! All the stuff you said and the pictures spoke to me.

Hi Teacher Julie,

It’s sad to see children neglected by the parents. Children are such vulnerable beings.

Thanks for the visit, Annie

Carver, we can’t watch a sad movie together then, we would both cry

Thanks, Leslie

BB, when we see these things everyday, sometimes we sometimes feel indifferent.

Thanks, Ling

Thank you

Sometimes I feel indifferent to these thins because i see these things almost everyday

Thank you, LC

Ann, sad thing is, this is happening all around us and I think we have been “immune” to some of these things.

Thanks, Sarge

JMB, thing is, we see this almost daily and I feel people have been indifferent to these. I hope not.

Thanks for the visit

As I have said, we see these things in an almost day-to-day basis that we have been indifferent to their plight

So true, Colin, at times, we have been indifferent to these things

Thanks, Pat

Philos, we see these on a day-today basis and we seemed to be indifferent to their plight

Yes, Anni, and because we see these on an almost daily basis, we have been a little indifferent to their situation

Thank you Patsy

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To think Jose Rizal once said that the youth is the future of the country. Thanks GenGen.

Thank you, Peppylady

Hi, were you able to come to Manila already or you still have to schedule?

Yes, and do a little bit of something about it. I am just glad we can blog about these things for others to know and maybe help them a bit.

There are lots of abused children all over the world, sometimes we just don’t know that these are happening. Sigh.

Human trafficking is one of the worst things people can do to others.

Baker, oh there are other kinds of child abuse, sometimes we don’t see these happen but they do, within the confines of the homes where we think the children are safe. Sad but true.

And these tender hearts should do something in their own little ways to help, especially when government arms are too inept to do so.

Ang daming heart-breaking things in these world. Still ….

I know, there are more things to be thankful for and I think blogging is one of those things because I can make known some of the things that people are ignoring. Kahit yun lang, ok na ako.

I agree Rachel and most of the time, its their parents who force them to do so.

Sad reality

yes, we feel sad about these things kahit at time hindi tayo directly affected (save for that thought about family)

All things about children in miserable conditions are really sad.

Children in miserable conditions are a sad reality. Sigh.

Very sad and heartbreaking

-yes, all the more so because its life’s reality

GreyMom, I know I can’t do a thing to help them, but blogging about it sure helps me feel I did, in my own little way.

So true, to think that these parents are the ones who are supposed to make them feel good are the ones who do the opposite.

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