Social influences on our children

In today’s society we, as parents, tend to depend on other influences to raise our children. These influences include: video games, schoolmates, and the person we choose to watch our children after school. Our children are being raised to believe that there are no consequences for their actions and that boundaries do not exist in today’s society. Regardless of how much guidance we give our youth, society can be influential. Parental inattention, technological advances and the influence of peers are three key elements that are causing today’s children to have no direction, purpose or motivation.
The first and most important of these, parental inattention, is the responsibility of parents to be there for their children. Society plays a big roll in this, because most of the time both parents are required to work. This deprives our children of much needed family time. Many of today’s families consist of single parent homes or homes where grandparents have become part of the ...