The Bad Seed

hey kids so there's been some requests for me to read a children's book and I thought what I do is do read a children's book once a month and but I'd also like to tie it to all of us giving back and so so I'm going to be giving away this is the book we're gonna be reading today it's called the bad seed and I'm gonna be giving this book away and then I'll write a personal note to whoever ends up winning it and in the description I'll have a link to my facebook page and there you can enter to win and you just need to donate $1 so if everybody or if half of the people half of my subscribers even 1/4 of my subscribers make a donation of $1 we can do some amazing things and a hundred percent of the funds will be going back to a charity each month this month we're going to in light of everything that's going on in America we're going to be giving back to the equal justice initiative and then each month we'll pick a different different charity to give to and I'm kind of excited to see what we're gonna be able to do together right each of us doing a little part and we can do amazing things so first of all before I get started I have a dad joke for you I've been reading a book on anti-gravity I can't seem to put it down anyway uh here we go so it's called the bad seed and here we go it's a cute little book got a cute little message too so the bad seed it's written by George on I'm a bad seed a bad seed oh yeah it's true the other seats they look at me and they say that see this so bad when they think I'm not listening they mumble there goes a bad seed but I can hear them I have good hearing for a seed how bad am I you really want to know well I never put things back where they belong I'm late to everything I tell long jokes with no punchlines I never washed my hands or my feet I lie about pointless stuff I cut in line every time I stare at everybody I glare it everybody I finish everybody sentences and I never listen and I do lots of other bad things to know why because I'm a bad seed a bad seed I just can't help it sure I wasn't always this bad I was born a humble seed on a simple sunflower in an unremarkable field I had a big family seeds everywhere we found ways of having fun we were close but then the petals dropped and our flower drooped it's kind of a blur I remember a bag everything went dark and then then a giant I thought it was a goner I thought it was done for I screamed and I hollered aha but do but I was spit out at the last possible second I flew through the air and I landed under the bleachers with a huge thud when I woke up it was dark outside a wad of gum had softened my fall I felt ok but something had changed in me I've become a different seed entirely I'd become a bad seed a bad seed that's right I stopped smiling I kept them myself I drifted I was friend to nobody and bad to everybody I was lost on purpose I lived inside a soda can I didn't care and it suited me until recently I've made a big decision I've decided I don't want to be a bad seed anymore I'm ready to be happy it's hard to be good when you're so used to being bad but I'm trying I'm taking a one day at a time sure I still forget to listen and I still show up late and I still talk during movies and I do all kinds of other bad stuff but I also say thank you and I say please and I smile and I hold doors open for people not always but sometimes and I and even though I still feel bad sometimes I also feel kind of good it's sort of a mix all I can do is keep trying and keep thinking maybe I'm not such a bad seed after all Hey look there goes that bad seed actually he's not all that bad anymore I heard that I like the the back too there is a bad seed he's not so bad so anyway I hope you enter to win and we'll see you next time thanks