We are not passing values on to our children. We are not sitting down at the dinner table talking about the tiny things that add up to caring human beings.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts.
Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.
We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.
I really look at children as being little people and not necessarily things or people to control.
When you think about the children, one of the things that I'm quite concerned about - and I've heard it expressed by others - is trying to find how we can build better accountability, work to provide a level of education that prepares our children for the future.
We need to do whatever it takes to get our children together and pay attention to them, because that's our future. What's in the hearts and minds of our children is what's in our future.
While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.
The problem is, we live in a society where all that interests us is power and money. So we don't have any interest in our children, and what we leave for our children is not important.
There's no question that we have great value on the sanctity of the family, and there are a lot of competing visions about exactly how we teach a set of values and we teach skills to our children, especially in the early years when they're really forming their personalities, their personas, really.