Let’s take our children back to the good ole days…
When families ate and prayed together.
When children did not have a choice in what was cooked for dinner.
When children had to be in the house before the streetlight came on.
When children did not engage in adult conversations.
When the first thing you did when you got home from school was take off your school clothes and do your homework.
When children ate a hot breakfast at home each morning.
When children were actually scared of their parents.
When needs came before wants.
When children went to church every Sunday.
When parents knew their child’s every move.
Now let’s compare the old days to today…
Now everyone eats when he or she wants, and where he or she wants.
Now children tell their parents what they like and dislike.
Now when the streetlight comes on the children go out.
Now children join in adult conversations.
Now children are up at 10:00 p.m. doing homework, still wearing their school clothes.
Now children have to make it to school before breakfast is over in order to eat.
Now parents are trying to be their children’s friends instead of their parents.
Now the new Jordan’s are bought before the light bill is paid.
Now children only go to church on Easter to show off their new clothes.
Now when you ask a parent where their children are their response is simply “outside somewhere.”
Parents are giving children too much freedom. A child does not know what is good or bad for him/her, that is call. We are giving children the responsibility of parents.
We are now living in a society where teenage pregnancy is common, fatherless households are normal, drug addicted mothers are no surprise. Children today are practically raising themselves and it’s not fair to them, these children are missing out on the most important years of their lives due to poor parenting skills.
When I was coming up you never heard about child abuse cases better yet a parent killing their own child, now that too is common in our society.
Our children emulate rap videos and have dreams to become rappers, what happened to becoming doctors and lawyers? How did we get this way? What happened? Where did we go wrong? Of course we all have questions that we may never know the answer to? But this is my question to all “What are we going to do about it.”
1 comment:
I totally I agree with your blogged article. It is very important these days to understand how exactly to be parents and do right by our children. Being a first time parent of my precious two month old baby girl I plan on instilling those same core, 'ole day' values that I was raised with years ago. This needs to be posted worldwide in order for parents to do something about this problem. When you know better, you should do better. The majority of these parents don't know better, there for they can not do better for themselves or their children. We can only make a change by starting at home with our own kids, one child at a time.
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