Train Up a Child
A Lesson in Life
Society is making many attempts to save our sons and daughters from drugs, alcohol, pedophiles and predators but who is making the attempt to save them from reckless upbringing? The words may sound harsh, and honestly, they were intended to. This question is not just posed to the obvious abusers, the ones who hit their children unmercifully, abandon or neglect them; it includes the parents who have fought their whole lives to insure they would never repeat the child rearing of their parents; the ones who try to do everything right but find that they are doing everything wrong. We shake our heads every time we see disrespectful teens, intolerable children with pants worn at their knees versus their waist, or another teenager pregnant entering yet another statistic. While we wonder what has happened to our children, many times, we neglect to acknowledge there has been a shift in parenting. The behavior of our children did not change overnight but is the direct result of the lack in proper parenting, the absence of discipline, and the decrease in community involvement. What is oddly ironic is that many times fear first strikes in the home, the one place where they shouldn’t be fearful at all. (read more)
Saving Our Children
“Child what are you up to out here in everything, but the right thing? Your parents have no idea what you’re up to while they’re at work. Well I got news for you! I seen what you did now go pick a switch off the tree… and not a little one either because I’m fixing to spank you real good and then I’m going to call your parents and tell them why.”
Those are the words that you used to hear when children were being disobedient to themselves or others. Once upon a time it was okay for the neighbors in the community to get together and teach children the difference between right and wrong. Nowadays most parents will be ready to fight if you touch one strand of hair on their child’s head – no matter if their kids are right or wrong. Many parents believe that their child could do no wrong and are very over-protective of their children. (read more)
Those are the words that you used to hear when children were being disobedient to themselves or others. Once upon a time it was okay for the neighbors in the community to get together and teach children the difference between right and wrong. Nowadays most parents will be ready to fight if you touch one strand of hair on their child’s head – no matter if their kids are right or wrong. Many parents believe that their child could do no wrong and are very over-protective of their children. (read more)