Reversing Society's Norms

The good old days:
We all talk about them in one-way or the other. In doing so we are saying that things are not as well as they once were, we are saying that we have all noticed that the world and/or the people within it is getting much worse. Each day, each year, and each generation; we have noticed.

There is a way to change many things that we think is wrong in our society today.
First we need to start by following some of our own rules of thumb.

For many years we have been leading our conscience lives with quotations and philosophical saying from every Wise old man, News Anchormen to all of our Formal NBA Players and most of the Music moguls even though a good 905 of the has less education the most. Mind you a good quote is to die for, but is it to live by?

Actually we have some great insights to start with, now if we could just put them into practice.

1) "A child learns what he lives". If we believe this then we need to make sure that he/ she is living right. A child can only learn to show love and respect if he/she is shown love and respect.
2) "Each one teaches one". In other words I’m saying that I believe that if I know and do not teach you then I too am part of the problem. We must take the responsibility to teach our youth (all of them).
3) Removing your wishbone from where your backbone should be. Raising Children is the act of guiding a being into adulthood and giving them the tools to have a productive life. You cannot wish that they be what you want them to be, you must actually put hard work into it.
4) Do as I say, not as I do? As much as this may sound contradictive it is a sound rule of thumb. A child should be a child as long as he/she could. As an adult there are things that we must say or do that are not for a child (yet). In guiding a child you must first teach them to learn, that is tell them what you want them to know, tell them that you want them to know it, then tell them that you expect them to know it. There is plenty of time for them to do what they see.
5) Honor thy Mother and Father. One of the great golden rules, if we could give our children one thing in life it should be an idea of eternal life. That is to teach a child to follow the golden rules; you must begin by teaching them how to follow it. And that is to learn it first, a child cannot honor thy mother or father unless he has been taught honor. He must learn to honor where he comes from so that he can honor where he is going so that he can be honored him self when he gets there.
6) It takes a village to raise a child. A selfish, unloving, parent refuses to allow others to love her child enough to correct them. A well-loved child has been disciplined, therefore taught by all whom he has encountered.
7) Spare the rod. Spoil the child. One must discipline with a loving heart and punish with an even hand. A child’s sense of justice will form based on its parents knowledge.
8) Reap what you sow. Plant the seeds of love, respect, strength, honesty, integrity, and justice. As an adult this is what he will receive as his character traits to build the foundation of his constitutions with.
9) The bottom of the barrel is always padded with parents. Before a child fail his parents must fail (him) first. Children learn what they live, follow our leads, and model our movements; if we live wrong they will live wrong, if we cross over they will cross over, if we fail they too will fail.
There is a time in everyone’s life when he or she knows that they can or will make a different and it is at this time that we make the choice. Years later we retire from the speed of life and sat back critiquing the drama of the day not realizing that we both influenced and chose not to intervene.

What we the everyday men and women know, do, and or say will influence and affect the next generation. Make every effect to make it positive.