Posted by
Greyhawk in Alabama on Thursday, May 29, 2008 10:25:01 AM
To AudiR10 and to Kepha: These two had commented on a piece by Ms. Crouse who was promoting family values at a forum dealing with teen pregnancies, drug use and other deviance by adolescents, and of course, whe got a lot of Nay Sayers from the Deviant Radical Left who believe such nonsense as two gay parents can do as good a job as a stable heterosexual couple, etc. First, of course, I suppose that these same sex marriage advocates must be products of the public school system since they obviously do not unerstand the concept of reproduction. Under normal and natural conditions, it requires a Male And Femal to procreate. No matter how normal these gay couples appear, and as they assume to be parents, no matter how Butch a woman, she is still a woman. No matter how feminine a man behaves, he is still a He. This type of Identity Crisis cannot be healthy. This especially cannot be a healthy environment to raise children. Anyway, read Ms. Crouses Article on Townhall. It is good and the comments are out there in support and some opposed. Happy Trails to you.
AudiR10 in Alabama. You hit it on the head about the word No. Fairness and consistency is essential in raising a child, running a school, a business or anything else. Children, especially need to learn boundaries, and in fact, secretly want Mom and Dad to be in charge when they reach adolescence and their peers are pressuring them into all sorts of deviance such as alcohol and drug experimentation, sex, thievery, joining negative peer groups such as gangs, etc. When a kid can say, 'yeah, I think you guys are cool, but my mom and dad would never go along with this, I have to go home.' Kids with well developed emotional growth, which is fostered in conventional households that have a positive male and female adult role model in them, aka--parents, are able to say No to Peer Presssure. In the home, the school, workplace or anywhere else, if you have a set of rules, values, and standards, and they are fairly and consistently enforced, you have stability. Children are exposed to faulty and negative inputs everyday of their lives on TV, movies, Video Games, The Internet, Peers at school, and The Public Schools themselves. It takes a strong family with values and traditons and consistency to raise a child and prepare them for what they will begin to face and have to experience in the Public School Setting of Today. The majority of the emotional growth problems begin when they enter public mandated schools. This is especially true for boys, who do not possess the intellectual and emotional maturity, to be placed in a structured environment that goes totally at odds with natural and normal developmental abilities for males. Males trail their female counterparts by as much as 3 years in emotional and intellectual developmental areas. This is not opinion. This is fact. So, these little boys are mandated by The Government To Attend Schools at certain ages, with no concern for the need or the appropriateness of doing so.
This writer will continue this piece in another comment as am limited to 2000 words. To Kapha, you are right about God as well.
M. Jerome Ennis, MAed
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
jeromeennis@aol.com