Everyday that your child walks out of the house they are faced with the challenges of the world. They are faced with peer pressure, academic pressure, community pressure and even family pressure. How are you teaching your child to face these challenges without looking out side of his or herself in order to deal with these pressures? Do they identify with who they are based on their family legacy of integrity, respect and mannerisms that are being taught at home if these values are being taught at home? Or do they feel pressured to go with the norms of society in order to make their way to the top of the corporate ladder by being cunning, back stabbing, rude and without the care for another's well being.
Today our youth are being taught in a completely different way then the youth were taught about 20 years ago. The new manners are replaced by our youth criminalizing themselves. The new prim and proper is promiscuous and cunning. The new work smart and hard is to back stab those who have earned their rights do to their hard work, with an understanding of a favor of replacement being extended to the backstabber. These are the ways of life that are being extending to our youth in the contemporary world. As the adults continue to play the blame game, the youth are slipping further and further through the grid lines of hell without a clue as to how to get out. While the youth are dealing with the many pressures of life, the parents are busy trying to make money and unable to spend much time with their children in order to instill into them the most important morals and values of life like respect and mannerisms.
From anorexia, to promiscuity---from profanity to the pants of young men and women hanging down below their behinds so that the world can see their private parts. To the horrifying messages in the music and television that the youth are receiving and horrifyingly given permission to indulge in, because their parents and teachers are listening to and watching the same things. From leaving out some of the most important respectful words like yes Sir and no Mame when the youth speak to their elders. To the isolation of feeling that it's not okay to say hello to their neighbors. Even the lack of respect that the elders have displayed to the youth in not correcting these behaviors has taken a toll on the youth in the communities, schools and the world. Many are asking the question "How do we get back on track in order to help the youth identify with the most important things in life to build a better future?" As the media continues to focus on the negative situations and provide as well negative solutions for the youth through negative television and negative music in order to make money, it's seen as a mockery to the youth especially because the problems that are put in place are caused by the same people who pretend to be providing the solutions.
In conversation, interview and survey with concerned mothers, fathers and children across the nation here are some solutions that were put in place in order to help our youth build a more positive identity and build a better future. The list goes as follows:
1. Work closely with your child on the importance of morals and values. As parenting comes from the love within, it is the responsibility of both the parent and the village (The community) to keep the youth abreast as it pertains to morals and values.
2. Spend more time with your child in order for them to understand the importance of family. This could be helping them with homework, spending time on the weekends with them or simply sitting down every evening to have dinner with the family. Always consider the family in every situation.
3. Screen your child's media activity. Set rules for the music that they can listen to and the television programs that they can watch.
4. Complain to the FCC in writing and by phone so that we can get better programming on television and better music on the radio for the youth and family's in general.
5. Connect with your local Mayor, Alderman, Congressman and Community Leaders in order to get better businesses in your community, even the business owners have a responsibility in every community.
6. Go to your local parent teacher meetings in order to suggest change in the curriculum so that our youth are learning the importance of morals and values by way of ethics classes and social awareness classes.
7. Connect with the Chicago Public Schools President and Commissioner in order to uplift better standards in the Chicago Public Schools by writing letters and making phone calls.
8. Connect with the head commander in charge "President Barack Obama" to let him know the importance of getting the youth on track in order to create a better word and future for the youth.
9. Get your child involved with extracurricular activities and community organizations.
These are only a few of the most important ways to help our youth to build a positive identity, so that they do not continue to fall by the wayside. The survey answers were given by some of the most important people in our country, "Concerned American Citizen's," in plight of building a better future for the youth.
To contact Chicago Public Schools log on to
http://www.cps.edu/Pages/home.aspx or call (773) 553-1000
To contact the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) email Chairman Julius Genachowski Julius.Genachowski@fcc.gov call 1-888-225-5322 and mail your comments to:
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20554
http://www.fcc.gov/contacts.html To contact Mayor Daley log on to:
http://mayor.cityofchicago.org/mayor/en.ht... To contact your local Alderman log on to:
http://www.chicityclerk.com/citycouncil/al... To contact your local Congressman log on to:
http://www.nndb.com/gov/292/000052136/ To contact your local Senator log on to:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_info... To contact The President of the United States log on to:
http://www.emailthepresident.com/ or call 202-456-1111
President Barack Obama
The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20500
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
Posted By: Talibah Bakhit
Wednesday, May 12th 2010 at 1:20PM
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