How Do We Make Parents Do a Better Job Parenting?
Question by [email protected]: How do we make parents do a better job parenting?
Today I’ve seen two headlines that make me sick.
Preteen Sisters Accused in Kidnapping
In Enid, oklahoma, 2 young girls 10 and 12 took a 1 yr old baby out of a neighbors house while the mother slept. They left a randsom note saying :
“If you want to see your son again then you won’t call police and report him missing and you will leave $ 200,000 on the sofa tonight and we will return your son back safe,” the note read, according to police.
The note was signed, “the kidnappers.”
The kids were arrested and taken to a community intervention center for children.
Next headline was: Girl, 11, Charged With DUI After Chase
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. – Police who chased a car for miles along a highway at speeds up to 100 mph said the driver was drunk, hardly a rarity in this resort town. But there was more: When they looked inside the flipped vehicle with guns drawn, they found an 11-year-old girl at the wheel.
Cops-her blood alcohol lvl was above 2.0(the legal limit for minors)
Now I am 100% sure the kidnapping case was because of television. They had to have seen this on a movie or tv show. You don’t usually get to see kidnappings anywhere else. The drunk driving one was just really bad parenting. Is the only way to make parents actually do their job to make them 100% responsible for everything done by the kid?? I think parents directly cause these kinds of things by expecting society to raise their kids and society is doing just that. The freedoms of our country are the downfalls of our children, without good parenting.
Best answer:
Answer by Sharon M
Well, the problem is, you can’t make someone do anything. What you can do is make help more readily available. For example, lots of times I read people advising that someone should take parenting classes. Great advice, but if that was something that I needed or wanted, I would have no idea where to go to get that. If ob/gyns, pediatricians, and the schools could work more to get good information out there, maybe parents who were completely clueless, (and who isn’t somedays) would be better equipped to do what they need to do.
Of course, this will not help those that are not clueless, but careless. As much as we hate to admit it, there are some parents who really don’t want to do anything with their kids. They’re just counting the days until their kids are 18 and they can kick them out of the house.
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