[amand44]

Parent rights are something that many parents seem to forget these days. I happen to live in New Orleans are and young kids go wild. There is no guidence or parenting. Please note the majority of parents work hard to raise thier kids. I just talking about the (growing) minority that I happen to see. The most important thing for a child is the way they are raised it can dictate there whole life. If they go to prision, or become a doctor etc. It all starts at home. Im new here and I wanted to get some other peoples opinions.Amanda

[jroon]

Amen! I see it all the time. No parental supervision. Kids out on the street, at all hours, alone at very young ages. My oldest son (16) has a few friends that have no curfew. It blows my mind.

[oweirdo]

I see it in Austin everyday, first graders walking them selves to school, jr high kids out till 10 pm and later. Really very very sad

[AussieD]

Sadly, it happens in Australia too. Parents ignoring their responsibility to parent.I've written a few blogs about it.
http://christian.families.com/blog/a...ared-to-say-no
http://christian.families.com/blog/l...2-in-parenting
http://christian.families.com/blog/1...godly-children

[QueenAngie]

It is our responsibility to parent our children,
providing guidance,
teaching and using our own behavior showing right from wrong,
providing guidelines and rules,
being their parent.....not their friend,
and showing them love daily.

[AussieD]

The above posts here prompted another blog. Thanks ladies.
http://christian.families.com/blog/t...ce-for-parents

[browneyes01]

it is our right to parent our children but we need to remmeber that there are different cultures out there that believe different things. In our society kids know that there parents can't spank them and so on, I know growing up that if I stayed out to late there was a possibility that i was going to get smacked so I didn't stay out these kids really fear no autority figures in there life so they do what they want. I believe and will always believe that fear starts in the home and kids need to fear there parents. In order to fear autorities and the consequences that could possibly happen to then out in the streets.

[Samual]

It depends culturally, I never knew anyone growing that had a curfew after the age of 15, mine was 11pm until I was 15.

It's weird the things you see at school, when you have to get parents in because their child is misbehaving the most common thing you see is huge denial, their parents are convinced that their child is perfectly behaved and that obviously the school is lying.

Then they're are parents that encourage the behavior or think its funny, a girl just before half term was waiting in the foyer when we got there to have words she had used sellotape to pull her nose backwards like a pigs. She laughed her head off when we came, so we wrote to her mother about it, who found it hilarious. Then they are the same parents that complain when their sons/daughters get bad reports, bad grades and end up banned from certain privileges.