Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
~ Woodrow Wilson
America, It Will Take Much More Than Our Daily Wants To Go Forward (Continue the previous Post )
II. The American family is broken.
Not entirely shattered, but certainly broken. When more then half the marriages end in divorce we have a problem; when one in three children lives in a home with only one biological parent we have a problem.
American Family by duckstrap in Flickr
There is more assaulting the American family then divorce and absenteeism. The familial essentials of time and attention are absent. The direct relationship between drugs and alcohol abuse among our youths and the lack of time and attention should be no surprise to our adult parents. What is surprising is how the parents still continue to engage in behavior that is overly harmful to our youths. *RESET
Remember adults you’re the role models for our children and we should as adults be cognizance of that every day. *RESET
Success Tip
*Here are seven simple suggestions you can follow to try and repair your core family or my suggestions for your RESET:
- Have dinner together as family unit at least five days a week
- Take your children to church or synagogue weekly
- Check your children’s homework nightly
- Demand the truth from your children and get it. Conversely be truthful to them about situations that have direct effects on them, such as the financial situation of the family and that we’ll all have to do some belt tightening.
- Taking your children on vacation for at least one week a year. Even if you can’t afford to go away take them to museums, free public parks or beaches, have a picnic, play with them baseball or something fun like maybe a game of poker with the family, you’d be surprised how inter-personal poker is and how it teaches children a lot about life, interacting in business, bartering or negotiating, etc…..
- Encourage them to get involved in team sports in school, or Police Athletic league (PAL) or even get them to have a startup game with friends(basketball or soccer inexpensive sport). Parents, just supervise the games don’t live vicariously through your children. Most of all don’t praise them if they aren’t doing well in the sport give them constructive criticism and to help them to improve. Remember let’s stop leveling the playing field for children with everything they do there are kids who will be better than them but let them find out where their talent is.
- Try and find a career that will give you more time with the family and financial freedom.
MORE TO COME TOMORROW ON DIFFERENT THOUGHTS…….
