They let the kids know that this will not just affect themselves, but their whole family.  Their brothers and sisters will be ostracized by other kids at school.  Kids won't be allowed to play with them, and they will be outcasts.  Their mothers and fathers will die a little each day they sit on death row knowing one day their child will sit in the electric chair and die.  

The kids have  watched silently as these men come out one by one, in chains and tell of life on death row.  Their daily lives consist of the 8 x 10 cell where they must live, eat, sleep and go to the bathroom.  They have no choices left.  They don't get to eat hamburgers, steak, or pizza any longer.

 Some will never get to touch their loved ones again as on visiting day they must visit looking through a glass and using a telephone to talk to their family members. A few states allow contact visits but not many.  Once a day you are taken to the showers where everyone waits in line as guards watch over them.  There isn't any more privacy for those things any longer as those choices as well were taken away when they got into trouble.

Let the kids see and hear what will happen if they go down that wrong path to drugs, alcohol, gangs and crime.  This is in the first DVD called, The Choice Is Yours. 

Read a chapter from the book.  We've included two chapters here for you to check over.        If you live in a state that Shirley Dicks can travel to, bring her to your school, church or organization to speak on choices or the death penalty..  (more on her speaking, click  www.thechoiceisyours.org/speaking.htm          Shirley is author of ten books on crime and punishment and speaker.