Where are your kids?

WHERE IS YOUR KID RIGHT NOW?
Where are the days when kids were well disciplined? Well mannered? Why is the standard at schools so low these days? Why do so many schoolgirls fall pregnant? Why do you see young girls, and I am talking younger than fifteen, hanging around shopping centers with men five years or more older than said girl? Why do so many kids commit suicide? Why are there so many drug related cases?
The other day I had a conversation with a teacher of a well known school in Port Elizabeth. She was depressed, down in the dumps. Her words were, “I cannot handle it anymore Colin, I don’t know what to do anymore.” Her ring got stolen in her classroom, right from under her nose. Even though she is convinced she knows who stole it, because the girl stole from her before, she cannot proof it.
Some of the kids in her class, she says, sometimes get a big fat zero for tests, some refuse to hand in projects, and that after she gave them more than a month extra to complete. She practically begged them to hand the project in, even gave them time in class to complete, just so she can give them at least some marks. They still refused, so they got zero!
She further stated that when she teaches, she basically talks to herself, kids are doing their own thing, talking, joking, making animal noises, etc, etc. The kids that really are interested in improving themselves, have to battle to concentrate on order to learn something. The worst of it, teachers are not allowed to punish anymore, hell they are not even allowed to fail kids anymore! If a kid fails, it is the teacher who is at fault. Not the kid, nor the parent, no the teacher, the teacher who has to help out when kids don’t have anything to eat during the day, or who has to help out when a kid takes an overdose, who has to help when your little girl falls pregnant…..and they do, believe me, on a regular basis.
Now my question is this: what seems to be the main reason for this? Allow me to answer, because I bet you’d hate to answer it, or you’d lie. The problem lies with YOU! The parent. Discipline starts at home, and in these cases discipline is seriously lacking. I hear kids talk to their parents like they are talking to a dog, to be honest I wouldn’t even talk to my dog that way. Have we come to the age where the tail is wagging the dog? Parents want to be in the good books of their children? Kids demand, tell, want and need, regardless….. parents bend over backwards to provide, please and serve, regardless. Now my question again is, why? Where are you as parent going wrong?
How many parents know where their kids are when it gets dark? I see kids walking around in shopping centers, young girls, still wet behind the ears, not even sixteen yet, with young men, in my opinion sexually active already. Why? Did you know that it is a crime for a man to have sexual intercourse with a girl under sixteen? If you know, do you care? Your little girl that you should love, who should love you…..the one you used to breastfeed, the one you used to care for so much, the very one that used to slip into your bed at night when she was little, that used to sit on your lap, telling you how much she loves you. The very one you told stories too. Well mommy/ pappy dearest, she is being violated, even if she doesn’t object right then, the crime is rape, because she cannot give consent, statutory rape! And you know what? You allow it, you allow it by not objecting for her!! By not raising and disciplining her as you should!
Did you know that there is a certain code with kids that go out at night? A colour code, certain colours mean certain things. Now I don’t know what colour means exactly what, but lets say for instance, a girl is open for sexual activity, then she’ll wear a purple top, or if the boy is into drugs, he will wear a yellow top. This way they know just what to expect from certain kids, it is a standing rule with most of the kids, at most of the shopping centres.
Do you really love your child? If you do, why do you allow this to happen? When you had your child Christened, didn’t you take an oath before God that you would teach him or her to walk the straight and the narrow? To bring them up according to what the Bible teaches us? So where did you go wrong? And wrong you did go, for it is your duty as a parent to see that your kids are brought up properly, or you’d have to answer for that wrong doing one day. And answer you will!!
What kind of parent are you? A spineless jellyfish? Are you going to stand by and watch some half-brained bastard harm or violate your kid? Your lame answer? “Yes, but it is against the law to punish my kid.” Listen, if you really care about your kid, and you don’t want to see your kid end up in jail or ultimately in hell, then you will not let other’s standards interfere with yours, nor allow yours to be lowered. My motto is, where there is a law, I obey the law, however, where that law contradicts the Bible, I just naturally obey the Bible. The Bible being the Higher authority in my book!
Has it ever occurred to you that someone would force you to lower your standards just so they would not look so bad? Just a thought....
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