Today's youth are facing tremendous obstacles. Values and principles are being lost in the homes. Parents aren't being teachers, leaders, or examples anymore.
The excuses are the bills, work, and there's just not enough time. The streets are cruel and heartless, yet our youths are being devoured continuously by the elements of comfort that they receive from the streets. Stop! Take a moment and ask ourselves what's more important; keeping a lifestyle we've adapted to or adjusted too, or saving our children that we've suppose to have devoted our lives too. Watch the world news; parents are killing their own children. Wait a minute; did you hear what I just said? Parents are killing their own children. Now if that doesn't break your heart and make you truly wonder just what is this world, coming to? Our energy is wasted on the troubles of our economy, politics, high gas prices and what color will our next president be. Come on people open your eyes, unblock your ears. Who cares? Children are in trouble. Your child could be one of those children hurting and lost; with no signs of hope.
To avoid the difficulties of truly parenting, we find it's easier to place them in therapy or send them off to boarding schools in hopes that someone else will solve our problems and stop our disappointments. Well, news alert, Walk to your nearest mirror and look directly into it and you should soon come to the realization that the face looking back at you is the direct solution to your pains, disappointments and embarrassments. Change the way that person is and the answers to your problems with your child will become clear; it's you, it's me.
All of us must do our part. Take a moment and stop thinking and start listening. No, not hearing but listening. I mean really listening to what your child has to say. There's a difference in hearing them and listening to them. Yeah, I know you don't need to be told what to do. After all, you are doing all that you can. You work, you pay bills, you go to church and you honestly pray. Funny thing is, well let's rephrase that. The sad thing is; you can't really hear your answer because you're all confused inside. To be honest I'd really like to say screwed up but then to be honest would probably offend you and that would only hurt the child that needs your help, your attention and mostly your love.
So let me not offend you because I'm just like you, only human; and being human we all know that the truth hurts and its easier to block pain and medicate pain; then it is to just face it head on and deal with it. Our ignorance and fears are killing our children at epidemic rates. Please don't get my thoughts and feelings that I'm sharing with you wrong, there are hundreds of families out there that's doing good. the parents are parents and teachers, leader, and role models. But I still have a question, what about the hundreds of families that don't have the good life or even just the comfort of knowing that they are living instead of just existing? There's a difference there to you know. Help one another if you have figured it out.
Yet, we all know the saying, give a man a fish; you feed him for a day. Teach that same man how to fish, he'll feed himself for a lifetime. Well knowledge is feeding people for a lifetime. Let's do our part in feeding someone for a lifetime.
Knowledge is the key, the answer to many of our unanswered questions. The world is filled with self help books and programs, but there's no available self help books that can or will help us solve the struggles our youth are facing today mainly because we are too busy trying to overlook that there is a problem, cover up that there is a problem ; or just plain ignoring the fact that a problem exists. The best problem solvers are those that first evaluate the problem, then weighing their options toward solving the problem and coming up with a logical and solid solution for the problem. The streets are filled with adversity and danger. Our children are finding comfort in dangerous situation then the comfort of a loving and caring home. Truth is; the home is not so loving and caring. Let's face it, the facts and statistics speaks for themselves every household in America that appears to be filled with love and care is not so loving and caring.
In Mobile Alabama a man throws four children off a bridge to their death. Now picture this, they were his children's. He claims that the drugs caused him to do it. Now, is it safe to say, that his wife or no other family members noticed a long time ago that there was a problem, now picture this, Birmingham Alabama, A woman kills her three sons in order to have the love of a man that didn't want children, so instead of just dumping this man. She decides that it would be easier to just do away with her children (to kill them). Now I can go on and on in giving factual situations of this sort but what's the point if no one is really listening. Because in order to really start to solve the problem, everyone must get involve from the family members, to the neighbors, to the simple stranger off the streets. If we don't start to raise our children with the principles, the values and the morals that we were taught, or should have been taught; then the streets, the gangs, the thugs, all the criminal elements, and last but not least, the judicial systems ( prisons) will raise them and teach them for us. And here's the scary part, the teachings that they will receive will continue to feed the cycle that they're struggling so hard to escape from now.
If you even want to get scarier, we all know that the children truly are our future. In closing; picture this, I mean really, really picture this. Our future is heading for destruction from the hands of our children's. You can only teach what you have been taught. If you only know how to steal, kill and rob. Then you can only teach what you know. So start teaching your children how to appreciate the value of human life, the value of earning an honest dollar, and the value of a loving family. Now after these things have been instilled in them, picture this; hope for the future.
