Why are our youth struggling, turning to violence and

drugs and gangs and alcohol, all of those toxic things?

Can you imagine the youth of today trying to be

the best versions of themselves, to have goals, when they don't

even know where they're heading to in life? If

you're a parent that has a youth that is struggling, you

are the main person that can help them through that. Welcome

to Krystal Rowe Impacts, a space dedicated to empowering

you to be the change that your bloodline has been waiting for. Join

me and together, let's inspire change. Today,

I want to share with you a story, something

that I experienced recently around some youth.

And it was just so heartbreaking to see. And

it really made me think about what is going on

with the world today. Black Eyed Peas says, where is the love?

And I mean, there's so many questions in that song that

are relatable to what I'm about to share. So

a couple of, maybe five weeks ago, I

took the kids to the lagoon and

it's just a local place where it's a man-made beach and It

was about 5.30, 6 o'clock, and the kids

were having a swim. And the lifeguard yells out

to these other kids, get off the tower, the

lifeguard tower. And they just sat there. And I looked

up and I gazed up and I saw these two boys. They were about 10, 11 years

old. And they didn't

get off. So the lifeguard proceeded to walk over. And

he was like, get down from there, get down. It's unsafe. And they

just sat there. He got about three

meters away from him and they

started to climb down. And as he was approaching, the

lifeguard was approaching him, this little boy took a

can to his face and he started croaming,

huffing. this aerosol can. And

my eyes aren't that great. And it was, the sun was

going down and I kind of looked and I thought, no way. There's

no way. We're in a public place. There's about 60 other

people around. And I look and he's doing

it again. And I'm thinking, oh my gosh, I

think he is huffing, chroming. And

for those that don't know, it's where they are inhaling aerosol

can. Could be anything from a Rexona

can to paint. And like

I said, they're about 10, 11 years old. And when the

lifeguard got them down and told them not to climb

the ladder, He came past

me and I said, hey, what was that kid doing? Is he?

And he goes, yeah, he is. And I thought to myself,

how are you just letting him there or

why is he here? How did he know to do this?

And as I had a little conversation with the lifeguard, he carried on and

he talked to the next lot of parents. And then that dad actually

came across to me and said, do you think that he's

And I said, well, look, have a look for yourself. And

so he decided to go over and talk to him. And

as much as I would have loved to have gone and spoken

to him, I had my six children and my main priority is

always their safety. And it's just

so sad because I thought, how can these

little boys, 10, 11 years old,

be engaging in such an act? What

has gone wrong with the world that these kids

are turning to these substances? How

do we protect our children from being exposed to

these sort of elements? How do we protect our

children from the world today that is so harsh and

violent? There's been a

few acts in Bondi and Melbourne where

people are hurting other people in public

areas in broad daylight. I don't know about you,

but that makes me scared. I'm fearful,

I am worried. It's just a really crazy

world. The youth today are turning to gangs, they

are turning to violence, they're turning to drugs and

alcohol a lot more younger. Every year,

every generation is just getting younger and younger and more violent. And

it's really, really scary. It's hard to raise your children

to be great people, to go

after their dreams. and to become the best

versions of themselves when their peers

and the children that they are going to school with are

making extremely bad choices. And it leads me

to the question, why? Why are our youth

struggling? Why are they turning to violence

and drugs and gangs and alcohol and all

of those toxic things? And it made

me think, why are our teenagers struggling so

much more? And I realised when

I was a teenager, I struggled too. I made bad choices.

I remember taking, stealing alcohol from my parents

and walking to school, drinking it. And I thought to myself, why am

I doing, why did I do those things? And

it's the pressure. It's the pressure to fit in and to

be wanted. And it's the pressure to, do

your homework, to go home and do what you

need to do. Back then we didn't have social media and I didn't have

a social life because my dad was very strict. But

there was so much high expectations and

I just did not value myself. And that

has trickled down into the youth today. They're still not valuing

themselves and they still have to struggle with schoolwork and

chores and home life. And

I just wonder what is

going to happen in the years to come if

we don't start making a change. So I know our youth are

struggling and I feel like the way

that they can get the support and love

that they need to not make the choices of violence and

gangs is to teach them in the home. Nobody

taught me how to balance and to regulate myself,

to understand my emotions and to heal and

to have goals and visions. Except

me, as an adult. But imagine being

able to teach our youth and encourage them to

go after their dreams, to help them to balance

and regulate their own emotions. How more important

would it be to have those skills be taught in school over

algebra or geography? And

I mean, it's so hard in life to

keep on track as an adult. Can you imagine the

youth of today trying to be the best

versions of themselves, to have goals, when they don't even know

where they're heading to in life. They don't even know

which direction that they're going in. It's

challenging. It's really, really challenging. And

I really believe that if you're a parent that has a

youth that is struggling or has behavioural issues,

you are the main person that can help them through that. And

I know that sometimes it's really hard, I know that it

was hard for me to be able to get to a point where I

was healed enough to be able to pour more into my

children. And I want to encourage you to

take a step and to maybe begin a

journey for yourself to lead by example of

self-regulation. If your kid, if your child,

your youth is having a meltdown and going

crazy, behaving bad, and

then you come and then you show them the same behaviour, you

yell at them and you're entering into an argument or

a fight or a battle, what is that teaching them? How

is that teaching them to regulate? I'm

not saying that every time that this is going to work, but

if you can come in and try and help them to calm

down first and to enter a conversation, we're

going to slowly be able to help our youth to

regulate, to balance and to understand their emotions so

that they can actually grow up more

sound, to have a better mindset. It

is really hard to balance your own

emotions when you're dealing with your children and

they are just out of control. I get that. But I

do want to encourage you, if you are struggling, with

raising children, with youth, that maybe you

need to take a look internally. Maybe there's some things

that you need to work on that you may need to heal or

unblock. And with the one-on-one coaching

that I do in the quantum course, you

can actually unblock a lot of traumas, trap traumas,

release a lot of things, so that you have more capacity

to be able to pour into your children or to help them, teach

them, co-regulate themselves. It's not an easy task

facing the world as an adult,

let alone as a young child or a youth. So

if we can actually try to collectively come together

and realise that we do have a problem with our youth, that we

do have a problem with violence and gangs in

this world, that we can make a small difference in our

child's life, that we can make a small difference in

our community. And to all the parents that are doing

an amazing job already with their children, because I know

that there are some amazing youth out there, some

encouraging youth, some inspirational youth that have

been amazing to their peers. I just

want to encourage you, if you Have a great method to

share that with people in your community around you, because