What are we going to do for the younger generation?

hi sjlg that you should teach your children before they get older my sister has 2 kids and she never teach them any thing so i say when my sister kids get older they well be mean but the kids father try to teach them the right way i allways heard to teach your kids while they are young i got a son is 6 now and he is good i not saying i got a good kid LOL take care

I believe strongly in the saying.. it takes a village to raise a child. I am probably known as the strict mom in our community however I am also known as the mom that my kids can tell me anything. I figure it washes itself out. The kids in town know that I will praise them when they do good and I will correct them when I know they do something bad. I am not a mom that will stand back and watch without stepping in if I think someone could get hurt. I am also the same one that will say hey good job if I know a child has accomplished something. I know it was mentioned about parents not having time to instill values and I must say that is partly true. I know I worked my 50-60 hours a week when my children were younger because I was a single mom that found a job that gave us pretty much everything we needed. I decided to then stay at home because I realized my girls were hitting their teens and I was missing out on a lot. Now I did still give them their values but I wasn't there to give them everything they needed. It wasn't as if they were unhappy but I believe they are happier now that I am able to stay home. Of course we miss the money but I do think that this is more important. Not everyone though can do that. I think that is why we are all responsible for helping raise the children in the community. However that means being there for both the negative and positive. Children need praise too.

Well I don't want to upset anyone in here but I think a lot of the problem these days is parents don't really have time to instill values into their children, a lot of children are spending most of their awake times in day care or with a stranger, I think the input of mothers in particular is so important in the early years, I was brought up in the days where mothers stayed home to raise their children to teach them commonsense and to instill the values they themselves were taught, I know people these days have it hard and have to work but I also think the young couple of today want too much too soon as a couple I know are struggling but can not do without a dishwasher...