I think what's happening here is, there's a group or maybe one person who is saying this is gonna be the definition and this is what we want to get the kids to do now.
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Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.
It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.
There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.
Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.
We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.
The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
That's what a family is: a whole bunch of people coming together.
All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score.
Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn't have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate with each other.
No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything.
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