How should our children act?

Today you have children who act as if they know more than their parents. It's true the times are different but just because the times are different, everything is more or less the same.

There are always kids who will influence others. Perhaps it's happened where another would try and get you to drink or use drugs. Perhaps another has tried to convince you to go with another guy or if you are a boy go with a another girl.

Jesse himself started to do bad. He started to slack off and did not want to go too school. He would rather sleep in. We talked and he understood that even though in this system it's temporary, we still need to improve ourselves.

We still need to work hard to get to the next level. School supplies that as long as you work hard at it. The Goal of school and this is no secret is to educate yourself so that you can get a good job that will help you take care of yourself.

If you don't develop good habits in school, it will carry over when you start your real life. Real life starts when you are on your own and working to pay bills. It's never easy being a teenager and yes teenagers have issues but most of the issues we bring on ourselves. We tend to point the fingers at others when in truth, we put ourselves in that hole.

If a teacher gave an assignment and we didn't study or even prepare to complete the assignment, who's to blame if you failed the assignment? Not the teacher of course and because teachers are spread across so many kids meaning classroom sizes are huge, the teacher cannot reach everyone. You have to pay attention to what is said so you can understand what the teacher is saying.

Parents are there to guide and protect and they expect the children to listen. How does a witness children act? To sum it up in one word, respectful and if the children act up, as parents we talk to them and get them to calm down, look at the bigger picture as to why at times we as parents do the things we do.

Respect is a big thing that should come from both sides but at times as parents we have to put our foot down when the child doesn't see the wrong they do.