Parents Have to Take Charge

Today while on my lunch break in down town Winnipeg I bumped into many students at the Winnipeg Convention Centre. I forgot it was Rotary Club Career Fair in progression.

As I passed by there were a couple students necking in the hallway. This did not strike me as funny as it is a common sight everywhere.

Unlike the days of their parents when holding hands was done under the secrecy of darkness it would appear that children these days are like little grown ups. They have taken their freedom to the max or so it seems. Parents are reluctant to contain their children's behaviour because this goes against the grain of Children's Rights Advocates. When is a child a child and when is that child a grown up?

When children who behave like lovers or are lovers are in the same class at school how will that affect their relationship to a teacher who might want to discipline either of them? It would be an embarrassing situation for either the boy or girl to witness such a thing. How is this behaviour affecting learning?

I am by no means a prude but I feel our moral compass has flipped from one extreme to the other. Children have gone completely wild and since no one dares discipline them, they go on their merry way and experience adult trauma in the form of physical abuse from boyfriends even before they should. Children need time to grow up; they need direction even though they may seem not to want it. They do, trust me. They want someone to care enough to say stop, don't do that.

In the old days a girl prided herself in remaining a virgin today it is the opposite. Girls and boys have to sometimes pretend they are sexually active when in fact they are not because of peer pressure. As innocence dissolve in wanton unprotected premarital sex and other licentious behaviors so are the diseases that plague our children. Someone has to speak out against the manner in which girls in particular are treated in society and even by some parents. Girls are more vulnerable to many kinds of exploitation because they have to make their own decisions and choices. Adults come on, you have to step up and stop behaving like children themselves and be the parent to your children.