Synful*Luv said:
By raising a child to be an individual, by giving them guidelines and instilling(sp?) morals and values in them so that they grow up to be respectable, functional adults. So that they know how to handle any situation that might arise, or they would at least fill comfortable enough going to their parents for advise if they aren't certain how to handle the situation. That girl there is still a baby, tattoo's, piercings, hanging out in those areas alone is NOT something that should be going on. It's not like this is a 17 yr. old we're discussing.
How can
any parent be expected to control what happens
outside the house hold. Sure you raise a child with values and morals but you can not control
all influences in his/her life. You never know the whole story, so you can not judge this situation. You just know what the media tells you, and how it looks on the outside.
Look, you do your best and hope your seed knows right from wrong. But in the end, you can't be blamed if your child ends up a screw up if you did your best. Most parents struggle with work triying to provide for their families,Many single Moms have to work two jobs to be able to sustain their children's most basic needs... Sometimes, FOOD outweights being there all the time... there's just so many situations in which the Parent is doing everything he/she can but it's not enough because life hasn't dealt them the best hand...
You can NOT control how your child will become, children spend more time at school, with friends, going out than they do with their parents... A child can get screwed up from the kids at school and when a child is young... he/she doesn't know right from wrong as well as an adult does.. so any other source could be influence the child's failure...
Just don't judge the situation, you simply don't know the
whole story. We are products of the enviroment we live in. If we were around our parents 24/7, then we will be a product of our Parents only.. but we go to school, we see 100s of people in school... friends, bullies, girls we like, girls that reject us guys that reject us guys that like us... people that try and sell us drugs, friends that slip us porn. the next door neighbor, the creepy old man who lives on the fifth floor... I mean Parents are but one influence in a child's life... You can
NOT control ALL aspects of a child's life, it is simply not in YOUR capaiblity.