Childrens Future?

Question

What can we do to secure a better world for our children?

Answer 1

I strongly feel each individual has power to make a better life for their children. While large organizations, wealthy individuals, charitable oranizations, and governents all have much larger abilities to orchastrate the events of the world to better our world and therefor offer our children a better, brighter future, it has to start first at home.

When parents take the position of first responsibility towards any children they bring into the world, understanding that how they raise them not what they give them will better prepare them to grasp a better future and life than their parents have, then their chances of having that better future can be a reality.

These days of softness, of things coming easy to American children and children in other industralized, developed countries, we take something vital from our children and reduce their futures. It is important to instill values into our children, teach them right from wrong, how to be responsible and productive, and to enable them to 'parent' themselves when they reach adulthood.

Rules are created not only to ensure we all can live in the highest levels of security, safety, and equality, but to enable us to learn responsibility and to respect each living person and animal on this earth. Teaching our children how to follow rules, putting proper disapline around them, with good, healthy predictable bounderies, we will enable them to one day stop being children who are told what to do by their parents and other adult authority, and be able to internalize these rules and then use them to be their own authority figure. Adults are adults due to an ability to monitor their own behaviors and actions, to take personal responsibility for their decisions and choices in life, and to follow the rules by themselves, not because somebody is telling them too.

When we create an atmosphere where our children are properly taught how to do all of the above, we create a better future for them. Children who lack such teachings, such bounderies, such responsibility, do not grow in maturity in healthy manners. This lack of maturity hinders them from reaching their full potentials,and often gets them locked away from society due to their inability to follow societies rules. This is very dangerous and it is the single best predicator of whether a child will have a good future or have a horrid future.

So, while all those other organizations can bring about great change, first responsibility to children starts with their own parents and inside their own homes. This I believe with all my might, mind, heart, soul, and spirit.

I raised eight children all grown now and living productive adult lives. They are healthy, responsible, respectable young adults who are creating their own futures based on what they were taught by their father and mother. They even lost their father when my youngest was four years old, yet due to the fact the most formative years are the first three years of life, they had a good foundation to build upon before their father passed on. I then made the heart wrenching decision to stay single and raise these children on my own, rather than seek out companionship and risk making a mistake in who I brought into their young, impressionable lives as a step father. This single act went far towards enabling them to have the healthiest, most secure and firmly grounded childhood I could provide them. They were not wealthy, but did not go without. They were raised to work for what they received materialistically in life, except for the neccesities. They learned to understand the value of hard work, and to appreciate what they earned. I am not preaching on what a great parent I was as I made numerous mistakes over the course of their childhoods, however, when a parent actively seeks their child's best interests, putting their own needs on somewhat of a back burner (parents need to take care of themselves in order to be the best parents they can but it can be taken to selfish degrees if not carefully watched and monitored) and they work diligently towards learning positve parenting techniques, and then implement them, then the parents are good parents.

Today too many children are neglected and put on the back burner of careers and other adult activities. Children know when they are not an important part of their parents lives and it is reflected in joining of gaigs and other illicit behaviors which land them in a world of trouble with the authorities. This labels them as 'bad' and even though they are only children who have been regulated to an unimportant component of their parents lives and basically abandoned emotionally and abused either emotionally and/or physically, they are the ones who are being thrown away by society and held accountable by adults who have a strong police enforment mentality and locking up of very young children who are lost due to their parents lack of involvement in their lives, when this is the best soceity can provide our children, that is a sad commentary for what is suppose to be the greatest nation on this earth.

So, parents need to do all they can to place their children as prime importance and we, as a society, need to stop throwing the ones who do not have the benifit of good loving homes, away.

This is what I think we can do to provide better futures for our children. Thanks for this question, I appreciate the asking of it and the opportunity to weight in with my concern over this issue. Have a great evening and lots of fun with your own children either now or in the future when you have some.

Answer 2

I agree with the first person to answer. The only way to secure a better world for out children is for there to be more people out there raising there children with responsibility. Take an active role in your childrens lives and teach them morality and compassion. Teach them to rise above the world around them and that education is key.

Answer 3

I doubt we can do something right now, although your question seems so decisive.

Hypothetically speaking, if we want to secure anything, we need to reform the educational system everywhere and the society, too. Maybe we could have the same "rules".
I would "dis-invent" politics. I would not drive a car that pollutes. I would close some factories...I would reconsider many other things. I would never fake anything and so on...

You do realize we need to change our lives, don't you? And let's leave aside the idea that each generation may have a role to play in this history and the other philosophical implications of this kind of question...

Answer 4

Always talk "straight" to your kids no bull sh*ting, If you can't be straight with them there peers will answer them but not the way you want.Have a zero policy on the things that mean the most to you for me it is drugs and alcohol . Most importantly send bush to Pluto and put somebody in there that actually cares about people.

Answer 5

No matter whatever we plan or propose, the children will only do what they want and it is indeed for them only to secure their future. Meanwhile let us first learn to take care of ourselves which will actively teach our children how toi take care of themselves.

Answer 6

the world's resources will be used up by 2050, and adaptation to another planet is sadly mostly impossible...drastic changes must be met or else ours, like many other civilizations across the universe will crumble all the same.

Answer 7

Keep people from ignorance and third world mentality from dragging us all back into the dark ages.

Answer 8

Claim more personal responsibility.

Answer 9

Be a good father.