I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's so much that can influence kids and young adults now, you just have to raise them the best you can and hope they make the right decisions.
The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.
Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.
I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.
As much as you don't like disciplining your kids, you have to sometimes. Kids want that structure, that leadership, that guidance. I think that's what I try to give my children.
I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
As a father of four, I want our children to enjoy the freedoms and opportunities that are the fruit of progressive values.
I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed.
I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we're still paying for it.
Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive or don't.
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