Parents Must Help Children Learn What’s Right, Wrong
Parents Must Help Children Learn What’s Right, Wrong
Editor,
I would like to express my appreciation for the fine column written by Elizabeth Gage (“Children Need Our Guidance,” Feb. 22). Her observations about the need for children’s guidance were very simply and clearly articulated, especially the importance for parents to be consistent with their children, and be able to teach them right from wrong.
Children need a lot of patience from parents who will take the time to listen, hear, and understand them, and then who will be willing to go the extra mile to make sure the child’s needs are tended to.
Just as important is to teach the child to have consideration and respect for everyone around him, especially those who are in authority over him.
There are no holidays from parenting. It is a “24/7” commitment. Whether we are with our children or away from them, the responsibility is ours as parents to watch over them, to watch out for them, and teach them right from wrong.
Every one of us collectively combined is our society. We must have standards and measures in place that help us be responsible as individuals, and as a whole.
I am alarmed at the recklessness that we Americans have allowed in our nation under the guise of personal freedoms and rights.
There are strong undercurrents actively at work in our nation to trample upon everything that was considered holy and sacred just one generation ago. And now we are beginning to see the disastrous fallout of throwing caution to the wind.
Just pick up the morning newspaper and see what condition our society is in. These things don’t just happen by themselves. There is cause and effect.
Please consider carefully what you are allowing into your home. Are the television shows that are being watched building you and your children up in character and integrity? Are the words coming out of your mouth filled with kindness and respect and dignity?
If the temptation to sit down and watch “sleezy” sitcoms where everyone is yelling at each other and making light of serious life matters is too great for you to be able to change the channel or turn off the television, perhaps you might consider removing television from your home and looking for constructive wholesome activities to do with your children.
How many sick jokes do we need to laugh at before we realize what it is we are laughing about? How many gruesome homicides do we have to “feed” on the crime shows before we finally have to run to the bathroom sink?
How many people in our hometown have to be vandalized and terrorized or shot at before we realize somebody has to do something? And who is “somebody”?
Let’s all take a good hard look at cause and effect. Perhaps putting the Ten Commandments back on the walls wouldn’t be such a bad idea after all.. It starts at home.
Helen Frusetta
Tres Pinos
