Children, obey your parents in all
things: for this is well pleasing
unto the Lord.
Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents
in the Lord: for this is right.
Honour thy father and mother;
which is the first commandment
with promises; that it may be
well with the, and thou may
live on the earth.
Ephesians 6:1-3
It is apparent that in the days of Paul children were, or had become a problem and needed to be addressed as to how they were to act. This problem is well demonstrated in today's teens and young people. It is not that there are may very good and respectful teens, there are far too many that are not and the problems for this are well manifested. I do not usually do this but this problem is a problem in the Church and not limited to those who do not believe in God. So please read this for you as a parent have a responsibility to raise your children rightly and in the Lord.
Juveniles
In 2002 juvenile courts in the United States processed an
estimated 1,615,400 delinquency cases. Delinquency cases involve juveniles
charged with violations of the law that would be crimes if committed by adults.
The number of delinquency cases handled by juvenile courts increased 41% since
1985. During this time period, the number of drug law violation cases (193,200)
increased 159%.
Fifty-eight percent of the delinquency cases processed in
2002 involved a juvenile younger than age 16 at referral, compared with 60% in
1990. In 2002, juveniles under age 16 were responsible for 41% (76,600) of drug
law violation cases Source: OJJDP, Delinquency
Cases in Juvenile Court, 2002, Fact Sheet, NCJ FS 200602,
November 2006..
http://www.bjs.gov/content/dcf/ptrpa.cfm
Drug-related activities of prosecutors' offices
In 2005, 24% of all offices assigned prosecutors to handle
community-related activities. Of the offices assigning prosecutors to
community-related activities, 37% reported that these prosecutors were located
outside of the central prosecutor's offices in places such as the police
department or a community-based office. The types of offenses handled most
often by prosecutors assigned to community-related activities were drug crime
(81%), violent crime (77%), juvenile crime (53%), and property crime (63%).
Over three-fourths of the offices that assigned prosecutors to
community-related activities indicated that these prosecutors carried a full
caseload.
Source: BJS, Prosecutors in State Courts, 2005, NCJ
213799, July 2006.
6. Lack of Parental Involvement: Today's teachers are upset by
the lack of parental involvement in their child's education. Parental
involvement has a direct role in student engagement and success. When parents
encourage their students to do well in school, assist with schoolwork,
communicate with teachers and maintain an active role in their child's academic
performance, students will have a better chance at succeeding in school.
Parental support and involvement also helps teachers understand students on an
individual basis, and makes them more accountable for their actions as well.
By NATALIE QABAZARD
URSULINE HIGH SCHOOL, SENIOR, 15
In contemporary America, it seems as though more and more teenagers are inclined to act disrespectfully toward adults. The notion that the youth must respect their elders has completely vanished. What has replaced this attitude is a sense of disobedience, noncompliance and rudeness. Some contributors include the lack of discipline from parents, the mimicking of friends’ attitudes toward adults and how the media portrays disrespectful teenagers as being hip.
Modern families contain parents who are more driven and focused on their careers and less focused on the success of their family. According to essortment.com, “Becoming a teenager brings with it a host of new emotions, attitudes and behaviors. As kids age 13 to 19 move from childhood to maturity, they often experiment with language to express their boundaries and talk back to parents in ways that are inappropriate. It then becomes the parents’ duty to instruct their children how to speak with respect to authorities.”
The problem arises when parents fail to teach their children the correct way of behaving toward adults. Once threats are made, the parents back down and the teenager feels powerful. Now, the teenager has control over the parent, causing the parent to feel weak and powerless.
Now more than ever, teens are mimicking the disrespectful and disobedient attitude, which their friends exhibit at school. This can mainly be seen between a student and a teacher. The same attitude that is being used toward parents is used against school officials. Schools should enforce more disciplinary action against these rude teens so as to make them pay for their lack of respect. As teenagers go about their daily lives, they observe others being rude to their friends and their parents, so they in turn do the same. The amount of peer pressure is increasing; therefore, it results in conforming to their peers’ expectations.
The media portrays disrespectful teenagers as being “cool” and therefore has contributed to this epidemic. We see more and more disrespectful teenagers on TV because it is entertaining to watch. However, this should not be at the expense of our future society’s behavior.
On the popular reality show “My Super Sweet Sixteen,” spoiled adolescent girls treat their parents with a lack of respect in order to get what they want. It is apparent, in this TV show, that the parents of these 16-year-olds only care about buying their children happiness when, in fact, the child feeds off of this carelessness and would like to take the power away from the parents and bring it upon themselves. By televising such acts, it is promoting these behaviors, hence more of it.
Teenagers must end this form of verbal abuse because if this behavior persists, America will form into a country filled with insolence. How would the remainder of the world esteem America if the president was arrogant, rude and disrespectful? America is known for its stature as a nation, filled with kind and respectful people. However, with the way that our generation proceeds into the future, that stature will likely plummet.
URSULINE HIGH SCHOOL, SENIOR, 15
In contemporary America, it seems as though more and more teenagers are inclined to act disrespectfully toward adults. The notion that the youth must respect their elders has completely vanished. What has replaced this attitude is a sense of disobedience, noncompliance and rudeness. Some contributors include the lack of discipline from parents, the mimicking of friends’ attitudes toward adults and how the media portrays disrespectful teenagers as being hip.
Modern families contain parents who are more driven and focused on their careers and less focused on the success of their family. According to essortment.com, “Becoming a teenager brings with it a host of new emotions, attitudes and behaviors. As kids age 13 to 19 move from childhood to maturity, they often experiment with language to express their boundaries and talk back to parents in ways that are inappropriate. It then becomes the parents’ duty to instruct their children how to speak with respect to authorities.”
The problem arises when parents fail to teach their children the correct way of behaving toward adults. Once threats are made, the parents back down and the teenager feels powerful. Now, the teenager has control over the parent, causing the parent to feel weak and powerless.
Now more than ever, teens are mimicking the disrespectful and disobedient attitude, which their friends exhibit at school. This can mainly be seen between a student and a teacher. The same attitude that is being used toward parents is used against school officials. Schools should enforce more disciplinary action against these rude teens so as to make them pay for their lack of respect. As teenagers go about their daily lives, they observe others being rude to their friends and their parents, so they in turn do the same. The amount of peer pressure is increasing; therefore, it results in conforming to their peers’ expectations.
The media portrays disrespectful teenagers as being “cool” and therefore has contributed to this epidemic. We see more and more disrespectful teenagers on TV because it is entertaining to watch. However, this should not be at the expense of our future society’s behavior.
On the popular reality show “My Super Sweet Sixteen,” spoiled adolescent girls treat their parents with a lack of respect in order to get what they want. It is apparent, in this TV show, that the parents of these 16-year-olds only care about buying their children happiness when, in fact, the child feeds off of this carelessness and would like to take the power away from the parents and bring it upon themselves. By televising such acts, it is promoting these behaviors, hence more of it.
Teenagers must end this form of verbal abuse because if this behavior persists, America will form into a country filled with insolence. How would the remainder of the world esteem America if the president was arrogant, rude and disrespectful? America is known for its stature as a nation, filled with kind and respectful people. However, with the way that our generation proceeds into the future, that stature will likely plummet.
This is a problem that my teacher friends say to me and for some one of the reasons that they left teaching. Don't set this aside as a problem for others, it is not, it is all our problem and one that will change culture. We live for God not for ourselves.
And these words, which I command
thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
and thou shalt teach them diligently
unto they children, and shall talk
of them when thou sittest in thine house,
and when thou walkest by the way,
and when thou liest down, and when thou
risest up.
Deuteronomy 6:6-7
Love your Children in the Lord
Richard L. Crumb
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