Life Lessons Are Lost to the Children of Broken Families

One of the hardest things a mother can do is watch her while he is sick. Their little bodies fighting a virus and their minds not quite understanding what is happening to them. The once active child becomes inactive as a full fledge cold sets in. The warning signs were there but it all the child's energy level was through the roof as usual. The questions run through her head and she often wonders what she missed all the while knowing that she missed it all. Parenting isn't the easiest job in the world and with so many families falling apart many young women and men are growing up without the basic know how of family life.

People learn as they go now days, all the while, hoping for the answers to appear as easily as they breath. What they don't understand is the facts they need to take care of their families should be common sense but sense the family dynamic have shifted or crumbled the information that use to be passed down through the generations has gone extinct. In a society with a larger divorce rate than marital success rate, how can one recoup that information that is lost. Is it even possible to save the family?

The fact is each generation learns from the previous generation, good or bad they pass on the know how of life. In a situation where the family is broken or where there is a previously dissolved marriage, some information on things as simple as caring for someone with a cold or proper food handling is forgotten or assumed unimportant. Many children are left to find for themselves only acquiring enough knowledge to make sandwiches and run a microwave. These days children can fix a computer but can not run a household. The main influence in a child from a broken home is the school system. What they learn in school is the only knowledge that they may acquire for living.

When reality sets in and they grow families of their own, they can find themselves lost and unable to realize the importance of simple things they need to do. They can be lost in a world that requires their complete attention and have no concept of the things people use to just do. Broken families produce children with book smarts but little common sense. The sad thing is unless they find someone to guide them or a book that they can conceive once common ideas from they are left to find their own way. Their children grow up with the same lack of knowledge and little concern for the things that matter. Once can only hope to do the \best that they can and acquire the knowledge that is necessary to pass on to the future of our existence.

Families need to bond together and regain the once common knowledge and find a way to regain the status of functional. They need to stay together and reintroduce the information that is becoming extinct. They need to talk until they are sick of hearing how important proper refrigeration is and how important it is to button your coats, because that is what is going to create a better prepared young parent. It is not always common sense to a child so tell them about the importance of a sneeze or a cough, teach them how to care for themselves so in the future they can care for their children. It is important the lessons of life are not lost forever.