Jul 25 2009
It’s time for a little Tough Love
Education and parenting are two topics that get a lot of press. Everyone can agree that education is important and that children thrive when given proper guidance from their parents. What doesn’t get a lot of press is the failures of education and parenting. We hear news about how scores should improve or how a children has been abused, but rarely does the press get into details of what really is the right thing to do when it comes to children.
And that, in short, is the purpose of this blog.
I am a father of four. I am also a teacher with nearly a dozen years of experience. I’ve seen some of the best and worst in parenting and education. I’ve long wanted to write about what children really need, and this blog will be used to do that in a no hold punches sort of way.
In today’s PC society, one of the last sacred areas is that of parenting. You simply don’t tell someone how to raise their child. It’s this time of ostrich hiding its head in the ground attitude that has led to a lot of problems with today’s youth. Some parents need to be told how to raise their child because, frankly, they don’t have a clue.
You’ve heard it said before, I’m sure, that you need a license to drive, but any moron can become a parent. How true. While I haven’t taught kids of kids I used to teach yet, I have seen enough of bad parenting being past on to know that it’s all cylindrical. A person raised by bad parenting has a chance of becoming a bad parent themselves. I’ve seen cases of someone dropping out of school because they had a child and then seeing that child grow up and drop out of school because they too became pregnant. It’s a disappointing cycle that should stop.
In this blog I will be discussing observations about parenting and how it relates to education, national trends, and other concerns about children. I would also eventually love to get to the point to listen to others about comments or questions they may have about raising and teaching children. Am I a parenting expert? No, like most parents, I am learning something new everyday. And I hope my unique perspective on raising children and teaching them can make this an entertaining blog. So, welcome, then, to Tough Love.
