To Train Up A Child Or Just Socially Scrape By

What makes a liar and rebel? Authority that does not take the lead and responsibility to curtail it before it ever begins. But alas....this is the all too often picture we see of the American youth and parents today. Parents are tossing aside their responsibility in training up and raising their children to be productive, responsible, action-accountable individuals. It's a shame to see a teenager who has potential to be allowed by parents to drop out of school and do nothing with their life. They are not encouraged or even made to try and get some form of education, nor are they even expected to get a job. They are allowed to do whatever they want, whenever they please and have no accountability for their own actions. The youth fraternizes with those of lesser moral value in their character all with the approval of the parents. The child gets arrested and with no accountability they are bailed out by the adult and never even made to pay the penalty for the crimes and actions they commit. It's always someone else's fault.

What happens when these young adults are caught doing harm to another person's property? When it comes to the adult over them....absolutely nothing!!!! They are allowed to continue in the same destructive behavior all the while blame being placed elsewhere. After all, their precious child could never be the wrong one in any situation....even when they are caught red handed! These same children are allowed to play with guns, drugs, alcohol and sex like it is nothing. The parents are not ignorant of the ramifications of this destructive behavior, but yet they choose consciously to turn a blind eye to it because they don't want to deal with it. What they fail to see is that they can try and ignore the consequences now but they will have to deal with in due time....but far to often the damage has already been done and the true accountability is laid in their child's lap. This time they are forced by legalities to face the facts of what they did and pay the price. Unfortunately the guilty child still sees no wrong in what they have done and expects, yes expects that someone will bail them out so they can go along their merry way as it has always been.

Society tries to pass the buck on making people responsible for their own actions. They blame the person's childhood upbringing, or blame it on being a product of a divorced home, or call it self inferiority due to some other person or situations direct result. Never mind the fact that this person made the conscious choice, on their own, to act in a manner that is inappropriate or even harmful to others. Never mind that it was this same person who made the choice to light up the joint and smoke it. Never mind that it was this persons choice to steal a vehicle and wreck into another person. Never mind that this person chose to physically abuse another person. No...no...we can't make them responsible for what they have done, we have to pass it off onto someone else as being the culprit.

When does this vicious cycle of rearing up children that no more have a clue how to take responsibility for their actions than the man in the moon!?! When will parents take their focus off of themselves and their selfish gains and focus on their children? The children of today are so neglected when it comes real parenting. As long as there is a slapped together fast food meal on the counter, the t.v. going and no one really communicating in the home, this is considered normal for most families. The excuse is that we don't live in the "Leave It To Beaver" era anymore. It has nothing to do with what era we are in, but it does have everything to do with the selfishness of our society. When a child is looked at more for the tax credit or child support one can get because of them instead of the gift that they should be....there is definitely something majorly wrong in the world today. Sad thing is, society accepts it and calls it socially acceptable. Well, world....here's my feelings on it....IT'S NOT ACCEPTABLE!!!