Posted on Sep 5, 2015
Are we giving adolescents the wrong foundation to carry them through life?
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Taking away responsibility from adolescents, not providing proper monitoring and structure in order to allow them to avoid the responsibilities and consequecnces of adult life has led to a culture of adolescents in which drug use, sexually transmitted diseases, cheating is rampant. We need to stop this social experiment and have them rapidly assume the roles and responsibilities of adults, with your supervision.
Do not kid yourself into thinking you know what is going on in your teenager's life, because you ask them questions and check on their grades. Trust me they have lives all their own, they're not sharing things with you which they know would prevent them from being able to go out with their friends or participate in extracurricular activities. Ask any law enforcement officer, child services officer, or other person who has to deal with their issues on a regular basis.
Does your child have their own cell phone, Facebook, twitter, snapchat, line, ....or other account? When was the last time you had them hand over their phone and you checked to see what is in those messages? So you want to argue with me and say you don't want to invade their privacy, upset them, .... To that I say it's about brain development. Adolescents brains are not developed, parts of the brain responsible for more "top-down" control, controlling impulses, and planning ahead—the hallmarks of adult behavior—are among the last to mature.
This is the reason we must monitor. It's a tough time consuming job.
http://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/adolescent-health-topics/substance-abuse/home.html
Do not kid yourself into thinking you know what is going on in your teenager's life, because you ask them questions and check on their grades. Trust me they have lives all their own, they're not sharing things with you which they know would prevent them from being able to go out with their friends or participate in extracurricular activities. Ask any law enforcement officer, child services officer, or other person who has to deal with their issues on a regular basis.
Does your child have their own cell phone, Facebook, twitter, snapchat, line, ....or other account? When was the last time you had them hand over their phone and you checked to see what is in those messages? So you want to argue with me and say you don't want to invade their privacy, upset them, .... To that I say it's about brain development. Adolescents brains are not developed, parts of the brain responsible for more "top-down" control, controlling impulses, and planning ahead—the hallmarks of adult behavior—are among the last to mature.
This is the reason we must monitor. It's a tough time consuming job.
http://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/adolescent-health-topics/substance-abuse/home.html
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I see this from a different perspective CPT (Join to see). It is worse than taking away responsibility. We are not even empowering children to make proper decisions or showing we trust them. My wife and I tried to organize a night for teens to go together, without parents, to the movies on our installation. It is small enough for the kids to walk there too. We had zero takers....now I am not going to say that did not have real excuses, but everyone was surprised we were going to let our children go alone. They are of legal age to move freely on post, and they all have ID cards. It should not be an issue, but I could tell there were very apprehensive parents...which I think led to excuses for their children not to attend.
Situations like above are part of the real lack of engagement parents have with their children, in my opinion of course. I think some parents want to shelter their children from the bad of the world instead of teaching them how to live in it. If they do not understand that their is bad things in the world, they will not know how to avoid or deal with those situations when they inevitably come along. This is why we just keep our circle of family friends small. We just think too different from the people we are exposed to. Just my thoughts.
Situations like above are part of the real lack of engagement parents have with their children, in my opinion of course. I think some parents want to shelter their children from the bad of the world instead of teaching them how to live in it. If they do not understand that their is bad things in the world, they will not know how to avoid or deal with those situations when they inevitably come along. This is why we just keep our circle of family friends small. We just think too different from the people we are exposed to. Just my thoughts.
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CSM Carl Cunningham You are right it is worse than I stated. I needed to start somewhere and I think if I were to say all that I have to say on this subject it would be overwhelming for most to hear. I see the same thing you are talking about and I ask the parents, What is your child going to do in 2 or 3 years when they go to college, if they are not allowed to make decisions now? I would rather my child learn to make decisions now than when he is alone. They have to start somewhere.
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CSM Carl Cunningham
Exactly CPT (Join to see) !! My daughter could potentially be on her own at a university in three years.....if she is not learning about the world now, I would hate for her to learn it there. And I am the same, I could write a book on this subject alone.
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CPT (Join to see) I think it's a double edge sword: social media vs. realism in todays world. I think it's good to have technology, but when it comes to discipline its another story. We must maintain discipline to stay grounded.
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Just ran into this article, and it seems to fit here:
"People enter this world with a childish desire to have their every need met. They have an innate desire to exercise unchecked freedom of expression. There is no physical DNA in a child that leads to the involuntary maturation of their personal character. Children have to be taught to share, and to care for others. At the very heart of parenting is a parent at war with the heart of a rebel.
The unchecked freedom of a child’s heart leads to nothing less than granting to them a license to kill, steal and destroy. When no moral virtue exists in the heart of a parent or child, neither one will exercise self-restraint."
Freedom without self-restraint breeds a culture of license.
http://americanrenewalproject.com/2014/12/freedom-without-self-restraint-breeds-a-culture-of-license/
"People enter this world with a childish desire to have their every need met. They have an innate desire to exercise unchecked freedom of expression. There is no physical DNA in a child that leads to the involuntary maturation of their personal character. Children have to be taught to share, and to care for others. At the very heart of parenting is a parent at war with the heart of a rebel.
The unchecked freedom of a child’s heart leads to nothing less than granting to them a license to kill, steal and destroy. When no moral virtue exists in the heart of a parent or child, neither one will exercise self-restraint."
Freedom without self-restraint breeds a culture of license.
http://americanrenewalproject.com/2014/12/freedom-without-self-restraint-breeds-a-culture-of-license/
Freedom without self-restraint breeds a culture of license.
Where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained, But happy is he who keeps the law.” Proverbs 29:18 Recent events have tempted many preachers to trade biblically accurate protein, for moral…
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