Reasons to leave Hawaii

[Carolann R]

While it's true that parents bear responsibility for their kids' discipline or lack of it...there are other factors that apply. I speak purely from experience. Our kids are pretty good kids, although they are influenced by their peers, radio, TV, music, current events, news, among other things. Many times events will happen in their lives (approx 15 and 16 - one boy, one girl) that we as parents will NEVER know about. Remember being a teenager? I rarely went to my parents with things that effected me in school or in my social groups. To make a blanket statement like:

"I don't think that discipline problems in public schools are specific to Hawaii. It's a problem nationwide, and IMHO, can be attributed to parents."

is not only unfair to many parents who make an effort to be a part of their kids lives and but to the kids who have things they feel that are dismissed as a part of their home environment and may be affected by other factors in their lives unbeknownst to their parents. A blanket statement like this only insights controversy and does not speak to a solution for either parents or kids. It's not that simple. If it were, we'd all get text books on how to raise kids - maybe something titled: The Absolute Answer to Raising a Perfectly Balanced, Healthy Human. I didn't get one of those...we're all out here flapping our wings together.

I'm not upset here...just tryin' to make a point. Mahalo


Carrie

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Edited by - carolann r on 08/21/2006 05:56:59