AuburnPub.com - Parents need to raise their children the right way

Parents need to raise their children the right way

Tuesday, May 1, 2007 10:46 AM EDT

I went to other cities and I watched and checked out their programs for youth.

A lot of their programs included helping to prepare their youth for further educational programs.

They start in the child's junior year in high school working with the assistance of colleges and universities, teaching them the skills and necessary courses that they will need to go to these institutions.

Children must be taught early in life so their lives will be made better and they will be better citizens. They learn how to be responsible for their own actions.

Too many children are dropping out of school because unlike when we went to school as children, they are not required to go once they turn 16.

We were monitored and run down by truant officers who would take you to school if caught skipping.

Because so many different laws have been passed, everything pertaining to the parent and child has damaged our society and world.

So all that the parents see is their children self-destruct, killing others and themselves, disrespecting themselves and others.

Mothers' so-called “chillin'” with their children, unable to teach them because they themselves were not taught anything about the morals of life, which include the do's and don'ts of motherhood, womanhood and parenting.

There are no lines drawn as to what they learn.

Every child needs love, not from another's husband or wife, but from we as the parents and protectors of these “gifts” from heaven!

What happened in Virginia, Columbine and other schools could happen here, then everyone will sit and ask “what went wrong?”

Parents are what have gone wrong. You can't just teach one child (yours) and think that he or she will make the whole community shine.

Cherry Love-Duncan

Auburn

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There are 7 comment(s)

No No No wrote on May 2, 2007 11:38 AM:

" NO one person can or should be able to say what "other" parents "should" be doing about this issue. She obviously has an over inflated sense of her own importance and a serious lack of respect for the reality of raising a child(ren) in this society, etc. etc. etc. How many children do YOU have? How many of them, if you have any, finished school, college? How many work for a living and have triple digit earnings? That would be considered "upper middle income" upper middle class these days. In case you wondered why I ask. If you are giving "advise," perhaps you have some "succeses" in your own family that you could share with the readers. Enlighten us as to how this is accomplished by a parent, rathe than how you "expect" school programs, teachers, society to do it for parents. I tall goes together, but it ALL starts at home.... Always has, always will. Otherwise it is broken.... "

Lazy way out wrote on May 1, 2007 11:17 PM:

" GED is a a lazy way out, its for the kid who doesn't want to get up in the morning or apply themselves. Why should they put any effort in school? but the reality is sooner or later employers are not going to accept the GED. I would rather hire a kid that goes to school and works hard to get good grades than somebody who quits and takes one test and thats it. Lazy way out "

RC wrote on May 1, 2007 10:53 PM:

" practice what you preach Ms love duncan. "

Ha Ha ... wrote on May 1, 2007 5:44 PM:

" well for starters the writer of the above letter must have had a conversation with one that knows how to read, then calls herself practicing the good parenting advisor --->hello people they really should stop printing her hypocrisy her head has been way to big for some time now, especially when she has no clue what the heck she supposedly writes about - jeez "

Missed the point wrote on May 1, 2007 5:00 PM:

" What the author of this letter may be suggesting is THAT WE NEED LAWS TO KEEP STUDENTS IN SCHOOL UNTIL THEY GRADUATE. No one person knows all that they need to know by age 16, this is why GED is still accepted for employment reasons, to give these un-achievers a chance to succeed in life. "

Another view wrote on May 1, 2007 12:44 PM:

" Please make the men who become fathers accountable,too. No man has to be a father, if he chooses not to be, in this modern age. Men can use contraceptives, too. "

Lucy wrote on May 1, 2007 12:06 PM:

" What absolute drivel! If you want a child to be successful in college or in life, you have to start earlier than the junior year in high school. Children have been able to drop out of school, if they choose, at 16 years old for decades. Why does the Citizen even print letters like this one, with no coherent points, no information to share. "

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