Maybe The News Should Carry Some Positive Stories About Today's Youth,

every thing is a generalization, the youth are generally not caring but that does not mean that there are not great kids out there, of course there are and your daughter just found one of them.

Thats really lovely to hear , most of the teen age people are honest and none are born wicked , but if it was me i would frankly admit i would have never touched it , once while i was going to my college i found a cell phone in my street just few steps away from my home , it was the place where bachelors reside i was so scared to get in and ask whether it really belonged to them because my parents are very strict if they come to know about this then im gone , so i just left it .Sometimes even im scared of my parents so i cant help anyone !

what a nice kid - I think there are lots of good kids around but you only hear about the bad ones because that's what gets the notice. there are thousands of kids in the states, but you only hear about the few bad ones, that must leave the rest as good, but maybe unremarkable kids.

I am proud of your daughter and proud of the boy. Koodoos to them both. I think kids of all times get a bad rap. Lets face it what sells newspapers is bad stuff and not the good. We never hear about all the good that our children are doing in this world. We only hear the bad. I lost my wallet and did not realize I had lost it. I had put it on the roof of my car and drove off. Some nice person handed it into the police. I had to go and pick it up and got a lecture from the police man on how irresponsible I was. Heck I had two kids and was trying to survive motherhood and all that goes along with it. Then I found a wallet in the middle of a busy 3 lane street. I looked up the person's phone number in the phone book and called them. The lady was very thankful. I told her it happens and I had done it. I also found a credit card in the hospital parking lot where I worked. I looked up the person's name and called them. I then turned in the credit card to security so they could pick it up later. I was glad I found the credit card and not some unsavory perosn.

I was in a situation such as your daughter's.A girl found my phone at a parking lot and told the first person to call my phone to pass the message that she had my phone.We met at Starbucks and she's a sweet,sweet girl.I believe the media has given a large amount of bad reputation for the young and this has contributed partly to their psychology.Maybe not all teens are angels but please give them a chance.

thank you sharing your story with us. I agree with you that maybe the media should be blamed on magnifying the shortcomings of today's youth.

Hi Mom I guess he is one of the few that is still about and honest There are still a few about but sadly not many any more It was good of that Boy to do this but I believe he should have handed it in Then again if there is a No Phone Policy at the School then he did good not handing it in as they might not have given her it back I am glad that she has got it back Hugs

That is a fantastic story. it's nice to know that there are still some good people out there. I definitely agree with you that newspapers all over should carry that kind of story, especially since it could encourage more people to be that nice and caring. Thanks for sharing it with all of us.

I'm glad your daughter got her cell phone back. I'm surprised that her cell battery lasted from Monday to Friday with enough power left to call home with it. I have to charge my cell battery every night but that's probably because it's an old cheap cell phone. lol Last spring my daughters' and I were at an out-of-state sports competition and my older daughter brought her brand new camera. She thoughtlessly laid it down for a minute while she looked at the professional performance pictures on the computer in the lobby. By the time she realized she didn't have it with her and went back to where she was, someone had picked up her camera and stole it. I felt so bad for her because it was an honest mistake on her part. Naturally we spent a lot of time looking for it. We were going from one concession stand to the next asking if anyone handed in a camera. She was not only sad for losing her new camera, but she lost all the pictures and video she took during this mini-vacation. It had contained pictures of herself and her sister at the hotel, at the pool, at the beach...plus her friends and fellow competitors. But saddest of all, she lost her a part of her innocence that believed that people in general are good and honest. That was so difficult for me, as a parent, to see happen and not have any power to make things right again. We had hoped that whoever had it would look at the pictures and feel bad for taking it. Her hotel key was also in the camera case so we hoped that they would either call the hotel to report finding it, or mail it to her coach. Since there were pictures of her in her sports uniform, it wouldn't be hard to look up the team's address on their website (if one was inclined to try and find the camera's rightful owner). But it never happened. Naturally, we had the hotel desk on notice if anyone brought it by, plus we had to change the key code and keys for our hotel room. Fast forward... One night later that summer, my daughter was out with a few of her friends and they came across a group of kids that some of her friends knew, but she didn't know them that well. They were on a beach and some of the boys from that group of kids found a camera in the sand that was the same make and model as the one my daughter lost. She told them about her stolen camera and suggested they leave it in case the owner comes back looking for it. She said one of the boys told her she should take it to replace hers, but she wouldn't take it. She said at this point she and her friends continued on their way. She said she's not sure what the boys did with the camera but she thinks they probably put it back because they didn't seem interested in keeping it. This made me very proud of her that she was able to gain compassion for other people through her own bad experience and remain honest and not keep it for herself. I told her I was proud of her and that she was also a good influence to the people around her as well.

I'm glad she got her phone back and discovered that there are still some good people in the world. That was a good lesson. The news media doesn't share stories like this because the majority of their readers/listeners/viewers don't want to hear good stories. Many people go to car races to see wrecks, not because they really care who wins. They expect news to be bad, so the media obliges them with bad news. It's sad. I had a friend in Texas who put out a good news newspaper once a week. I think she ended up with about 6,000 subscribers. And still the daily newspaper insisted that only bad news sold.

Saviour-V teleports in.... Stories such as this are few and far between in today's news, here in Malaysia. Sometimes, I wish they'd publish more positive things than the average doom and gloom. Maybe we should make our own newspapers, instead...^_^;; And your daughter's quite lucky the boy managed to retrieve the phone. She could've nearly lost it for good, honestly. Saviour-V bows to someonesmom, and teleports out a moment later....

I can't believe that the boy really returned the cellphone to your daughter. If some kids found it they probably never returned it. That's a good thing that these days some of the youth have a good attitude. That also depends on how thier parents raise them. And your daughter was also veyr honest to you about what been happening, i really appreciate it.Happy posting.

What a wonderful story - and I think these stories happen a lot more than we know. I agree that the media focus far more on the bad than on the good - not just with youth but with all people. It's much more evident with kids, though, and it shows in subtle ways that most people wouldn't notice.