Right now where I live in the beautiful Bahamas, there is a whole lot of crime which is most distressing to all who live here. Quite recently, there was a terrible incident involving some teenagers coming home from school who got involved in a row on the street which resulted in one of the teenagers being killed. This to me was quite revolting as there was video of the whole terrible incident, which actually went viral on social media. Now although it was quite a long time ago and in a different part of the world, I was a teenager too, and I just couldn't imagine my friends at school behaving in that cold, calculated fashion, ending up with one of us dead on the street.
So, as I state repeatedly in these articles; if we want to solve a problem, any problem, we have to first get to the real cause of the problem. So, what is the real cause of the violence problem here in The Bahamas resulting in actual deaths of teenagers? My Friend, the answer is contained in the title of today's article; 'Too Many Parents Are Not Parenting'. If Parents were doing their job by training the child in the way he or she should go, we would not have the problem of unruly, out of control, violent young people roaming the streets actually looking for trouble and alas either finding or creating it on far too many occasions. My Friend, if you make a child, you have a sacred obligation to train the child properly so that he or she will become a beneficial member of society.
Of course another serious problem which we have where I live, is kids having kids. I think it's about time that compulsory 'Parenting Classes' where introduced by government so that all parents, particularly the very young ones were properly trained in Parenting Skills. This I believe is imperative in order to assist in producing upright, productive and indeed peaceful citizens of the future.
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