London’s burning! The youth are looting and rioting.
Shop-owners are fleeing. The police are out on the streets desperately trying
to keep order as chaos rages around them. Politicians are wringing their hands
ineffectually and making namby-pamby statements. Youth leaders & so-called self-appointed
community leaders are blaming the government and cuts and blah-di-blah yabba
dabba doooo rubbish .. but there’s one group missing in action – yup, the
PARENTS of the criminal yobs roaming the street, looting, causing violent and
terrorising others. These children are getting off on a sense of a rush of
POWER!
So, where are their PARENTS??????
Now some of my readers will blame the government and say ‘oh,
the government says we can’t smack our kids’ (that’s a lie actually – the UK
has a LAW allowing reasonable chastisement of children as long as it doesn’t break
skin or leave horrible bruises). People say, we can’t tell our children off ..
social services will take them away .. etc etc . BUNKUM! NO Government has said
don’t tell your children off, has said don’t teach them good manners, don’t tell
them off when they are rude to others, don’t stop them bullying younger kids,
don’t make them do their homework, don’t be cheeky to your teachers, don’t say
NO to them, don’t put them in the naughty corner, don’t send them off to their
rooms, don’t withdraw privileges etc etc etc.
What I am trying to say is even IF you cannot smack or do
NOT want to smack your kids, there are many many ways of disciplining children
and raising them to become polite hardworking disciplined individuals! Good
parents all down the ages have and will
always find a way to raise their kids right.
Walk into any shopping centre and you find 2 yr old children
throwing tantrums and telling their parents to shut-up! Why? The parents said
they cannot have a sweet or chocolate they want. Parents call out to their 4yr
old children who ignore them and continue their wrong-doing. Parents say with pride ‘oh,
my 3 year old is so stubborn. I can’t control him o’ RUBBISH! Your 3 yr old is
a child – you are the parent! If you cannot control a 3 yr old, if a 2 yr old
can tell daddy or mummy to shut-up and are then begged and bribed or apologised
to by the parent, then kids are being raised who will fear and respect
absolutely NO-ONE! Parents go to schools to FIGHT teachers who tell their
children off! Then we turn around and blame the government! RUBBISH!
It is not for the government to raise our kids – it was not
the government’s decision to have those kids. Parents are the only ones on the
face of this earth who HAVE a MORAL responsibility to raise their own kids. This is not the time for excuses about
marriages breaking down or unmarried parents or single parents. All those are
cop-out excuses. Being poor, a single parent, a divorced parent, a baby mama or
baby daddy, a 2-parent family does NOT give you an excuse to run out on raising
your kids. Bottom line, when you CHOOSE to bring a child into the world, you
BECOME an adult. Let us all Man up, Woman up, put stupid differences aside and
RAISE the kids that we have.
Think of how quickly these riots would be over, if these
kids had parents they feared. One lady called LBC radio earlier. She had called
her son and found out he was involved in a riot. She told him to get his
backside back home otherwise she would come and drag him away from there. The
young man promptly went home. Now, that is a parent who has put in the years of hard
work, toil and graft that is called child-rearing! If your kid loves, respects
and fears you when they are 3, they will
still love, respect AND fear you when they are 16yr old lanky teenagers who
tower over you. And if they despise, disrespect and tell you to shut-up when they are 3, well don't be surprised if they are out of control at 16!
In conclusion I say, parents are called to be parents and
NOT their children’s friends. A parent has to often make unpopular decisions
and do things your kids will absolutely HATE you for at the time. Don’t worry,
do the right job and these very same kids will thank you years later. In their
20’s and 30’s, they WILL become your friends.
Parenting is a grave responsibility – GOD has given us our
children as a gift – let us raise them right!
