Unless you've been in hiding, I'm pretty sure that you're well aware of the eight students from Lakeland, FL that have been charged with kidnapping and battery, among other charges, for their collective attack on a fellow student. Although the media has covered many aspects of the story, I still have one question.
Where were these teenagers' parents?
I'm not saying that the parents' of these teens have failed. I'm just saying that they've obviously slacked off on their job.
If their parents were really up on their job, I highly doubt this would have happened at all. Unfortunately, people in today's society get so caught up in providing for their families in terms of material things that they forget to mentor theig children. Such mentoring includes teaching them right from wrong. I'm sure that the teens were disciplined-or, were they?
Furthermore, if their parents were truly paying attention to what was going on, don't you think that they would have tried to talk some sense into their respective children and try to convince them that the remarks made towards them should be ignored? If the remarks were that bad, why didn't the families of these teenagers sit down and have a mature discussion about it? Why didn't any school officials see this coming and take steps to alleviate the issue so that this didn't happen? Another important question is this: how did these teens gain access to a house and a video camera so easily for this crime to take place?
The victim's mom has already spoken out and I'm sure that the parents' of these children will eventually come forward with statements of their own. In the meantime, it's sad that the adults involved are members of law enforcement. Perhaps if the parents of today would put forth the effort to instill some type of morality into the minds of their children at all times in their life, we wouldn't use our youth so quickly to such senseless acts of brutality. The parents are losing their youth. While it is up to the individual to control their own actions, it all starts at home.
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I also disagree. I agree that parents should pay more attention to their children and not the television or themselves.
Now, this may sound extremely cruel and cold-hearted, but hear me out first.
The girl who got beat up went on myspace and started talking crap over the internet to those other girls. She brought it on to herself. She shouldn't have been an idiot and started talking crap or else she wouldn't be in the situation she's in right now. She wouldn't be badly hurt.
As far as the other girls, they shouldn't have done what they did. They were wrong to let it get to them so much that they ganged up on her, but she ran her mouth so what can you expect.
In today's society, this is the norm. You may not like it, you may want to keep thinking that its not really like that, but it definitely is. There's not much we can do about it until we have children of our own. Its up to our genreation to actually care more about our children. I'm not saying that everyone has bad parents because that's definitely not true. My parents are great. They work hard and they provide me with everything I need, and attempt to give me the extra things that I want. But there are many parents who just don't care or don't care enough about their children. Its up to our generation to fix that.
I disagree, The girls comments about the other girls could not have been that bad if she accepted a invite to a sleep over... This is why i am anti myspace, to much drama. I think those kids who did this shoiuld be tried as adults for attempted murder. What they did was WRONG. Their parents should get a talking to as well. This is why i think everyone should take advice on disiplin from their grandparents.
BAck in those days, disiplin was disiplin, not child abuse, you never saqw stuff like this going on in schools like you do today, because back ion the day, PArents could DISIPIN their children. Mabye it;s just me, i grew up with old school Italitan parents, so i had to behave.
~I want to know God's thoughts, the rest is just details.-Albert Einstein~
people dont realize that being a parent requires sacrifice, time being of the most basic elements of it all. Parents are failing to put some effort and time to be sincere with their kids and help them know right from wrong. Another problem is see is that parents sometimes get too involved with being their kid's best friend instead of being a parent to them. My parents arent my best friends, they are my parents, and their job is to teach me the difference between right and wrong. As I've grown up, the relationship between my parents and I has grown. Now that I'm an adult, my mom and i are great friends! but she is still my mother, and one of the few.
great job on that by the way. i agree 100%