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"Protecting Our Future" by Jayden Juday

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 Do you want to feel safe? Here at Dalat we want to make it incredibly clear that every child deserves to feel safe, supported, and free to explore the world. Child safety week is more just an event, it’s a commitment to nurturing awareness, building trust, and empowering the students with the knowledge they need to protect themselves. From interactive workshops to specially dedicated chapel time, Dalat makes an effort to allow students and parents to learn how to better protect themselves and their loved ones.


This Child Safety Week, we were fortunate enough to have a guest speaker during a chapel talk to us about the importance of child safety and the problems that modern generations are facing today. Our speaker, Joanna Koning from the Child Safety and Protection Network (CSPN) talked predominantly about the superficial relationships that the younger generations are pursuing. She cited examples such as pornographic website usage of generations Z and Alpha. Additionally, Koning spoke about the growing statistics relating to artificially intelligent chat bots and their influence on the developing youth. Aidan Boyd (12) said he really connected with the velcro metaphor used, saying: “I thought it was cool how she, being the speaker, talked about velcro and how the more you use velcro the less effective it becomes or in her words the less sticky it becomes.” 


Our message from chapel was from Daniel 3, where Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego are thrown in the fiery furnaces of Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar. The purpose was to show that we, as young people, will face fiery furnaces in our lives, and sometimes we will get burnt. Another huge takeaway is that we should not follow the culture of this world. Instead, we should stand on what is true and good. One criticism for me personally is that the message strayed too far from reliance on Christ, and the message shifted more toward defeating your demons personally. I would disagree and would agree with St. Paul that the good that we do is only because of Christ, and not of our own deeds.

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