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Originally Posted by DaveinGermany
Oh I don't know. There is a respect out there as you so rightly put it, but it is aimed towards the wrong people. If this idolising & desire to be like, can be focused in the right way maybe the Kids can be turned around, redeemed & brought back to the fold.
Sadly a lot of these Kids look to their Peers & Celebrities for their examples, which if you pick up a paper most days you find them embroiled in some scandal or fracas or other, hardly conducive to setting an example, but this is what they see & aspire to.
If on the other hand some of these Parents were more interested in their Kids as opposed to their own interests & needs. Spending time encouraging, cajoling & taking or sharing an interest, how much better would it be ? But until more people adopt this approach, we will continue to be stuck with these depressing headlines.
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Seems like we're back to the media again, not forgetting the self promoting ego's that court publicity by whatever scurrilous means that they can. Katie Price
aka Jordan, Naomi Campbell, Amanda Holden, foul-mouthed comedians, and bling enhanced footballers, to name but a few. We no longer appear to be engendering standards into our youngsters by setting them examples worth following.
Call me old fashioned if you will, but these so called
'enlightened times' are little more than an excuse used by the pundits to absolve the status quo from any form of responsible approach to the ultimate wellbeing of society.
My sermon for today is now over.