My observation- Why do we as a culture send or young chikdreb ( obviously they are not able to think for themselves) off into a world of university/college flotsam and jetsam and hope for the best while knowing that so many will be unable to stand?
Yeah, know, so many view the licentiousness of college years as a right of passage of some sort- let our youth debauch themselves while supposedly learning something to make their lives more productive and “better”. I disagree; the damage done to these children ( yeah I said it- juveniles act like juveniles, adults act like adults.) under the guise of “growing up” and is very damaging to many. The sex abuse of themselves and others, the drugs and alcohol, the lack of adequate adult supervision results in so much metal and physical health damage how can we afford it? How can we tolerate it?
Our culture displays some of the worst examples of care and concern for our offspring. Why, a few months before, we had our children in schools where most/all of these behaviors are restricted and even banned. Okay, public schools suck big time, I know, but at least parents have a voice at the local level- I know of no school system where everything is tolerated and blind eyes turned in the name of liberty and freedom.
There are a few institutions of higher learning that would be less risky, and they are thriving- places like Hillsdale college in MI. If I was 18 again, and knew what I know now, or if I was 40 and my kids were matriculating, that’s where they would go. I would be firm and they would be better off for it, even though they all have seemingly ( to my knowledge and hope) avoided the pitfalls of mainstream campus experience. Like I said, I hope.
Do we not know that our sons and daughters are going off to college and are treated like sex toys by themselves and the their peers, and even the administration ( perhaps by default, perhaps by intent).
I say we ought to relook our influence on our childrens choices an be much more firm and determined to “teach them in the way the should go so that when they are old they will not depart from it”.
Too many years are wasted in the morass of recovery and restoration from the indiscretions of youth; and I believe we parents and grandparents are culpable in many ways.
Liberal minds will explode, conservative minds will ponder, but a few loving parents/grandparents will persevere.
Regards
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