It is not an easy road raising teenagers as a single parent, with no male influence. In fact it is very difficult to try to be mom and dad.
Our teenagers today face so much more than we did when we were teenagers.
Overloads of drugs, alcohol and teen suicide.
We always talk about everything that goes on in our life's on a daily basis. I feel the more we as parents take time out everyday, and ask our kids how their day was, and show them continuously that we are interested in what goes on, is the most affective way to raise our children.
Be active with them, show them how much you love and care for them, talk to them, take time out to listen to them, even when you are about to run out the door to go to the store. That can wait.
Parents today do not give themselves enough time to interact with their children. Our modern technology, regardless of games, TV or computers is taking over the raising of our children. We are the parents, it is our responsibility to raise them.
Not TV, computers, games or our schools. Schools are only suppose to educate our kids, we need to help them with their homework, it is not the schools fault that our kids fail. That is our fault as parents because we did not take the time to help them.
We have to stop blaming society for being the reason for our kids getting into trouble.
It is the parents fault, because they simply do not take time to be parents any more, they are too busy running their credit cards up by shopping, or having their nails done at the salon, or talking to their friends on the phone.
People need to bring back the family values and remember the responsibilities you have when you want to be a parent.
It is not the kids fault. It stems from the parents and the way they were brought up.
Stop blaming society, take responsibility for your own actions/or perhaps lack of actions.
