A lot of parents these days think that they're raising mature, responsible young adults. However, if we explore their tactics close enough we'll see that they're actually preparing their children to become juvenile delinquents. Let's take a closer look.
We'll start this exploration at the very beginning, birth. Parents give their children everything. Everything they need and everything they want, because they want their children to have everything they did not have. The problem that we have with this practice is that as the child gets older he'll continue to get what he wants and not worry about anyone or anything else that gets in his way.
With all of the child abuse laws and the fear that their children will hate them, parents don't punish their children when they do something wrong. With this act the child begins to think that he can get away with anything. As the child is growing the parents do not communicate with him. They are too busy doing other, more important things than to be bothered with the trivial matters that their children bring to them. As the child reaches his adolescent years the parents try to communicate by yelling at him for everything he does. By this time at he doesn't care, nor will he take the parent or anyone else in authority seriously.
May times children wake up and say they are not feeling well and asked to remain home from school. As good parents, they feel it best to allow the child to skip school. However, there is a minor problem with this. By not attending school just because they don't feel like it, the child will never learn responsibility, or anything else for that matter.
In raising this “well developed” young adult there are so many things that you want to be sure to do. One of the most important aspects in this project is the parents fighting. They should not fight with their spouse behind closed doors. It should be done in the open, right in front of the children. Also, they should allow the children to fight amongst themselves. The children quickly learned that the only way to get people to see their point of view is through violence. Fighting will become a way of life and a means by which the child can obtain anything he wants.
As the child develops into an adolescent, the parents allow him to stay and as late as he wants. They say, because he's old enough to make his own decisions. The streets, therefore, become his home. There the child will learn more than the parent could ever teach him. As he is maturing into a young adult, the parents tried to take control by punishing him when he does stay out all night. When they do punish the disobedience it is harsh and sever, but they don't tell them why he is even being punished.
Now the child is almost fully grown, we discover that the parents have been practicing one thing continuously. More than any other tactic they have used, they have repeatedly bailed the child out of any trouble he's ever gotten himself into. They have taken his side in every argument, and have always said that it wasn't their child's fault. This maneuver, too keeps the child from learning responsibility. By closing their eyes to their child's faults, the parents will believe that he doesn't have any. The practice of this strategy will most assuredly keep the child in trouble most of his life.
There are many things that go into raising a juvenile delinquent who is on his way to becoming an outstanding criminal. However, we have only glanced at a few of the major points of interest that seem perfectly harmless. If you'd like, try them yourself and see what happens. I must warn you though, these practices could be hazardous to the health, yours as well as your child's.
