I continue to think about several of the comments made by Jim Williams, our guest parenting specialist including the following:
By the age of 14 - 80-90% of a child's value system is complete.
Kids need 3-4 positive adult role models plus parents.
A child receives on average 15 minutes a day individual attention by parent. Only 3 minutes of that could be named as positive.
A child is influenced 5-7 hours a day from entertainment-television, video games, Ipod, internet, etc.
By the age of 13 - 75% of kids no longer play organized sports.
Children need to learn from mistakes. This doesn't happen when their parents follow the drill sergeant or helicopter (hovering) models of parenting.
All families need to name their core values and continually point to them in all that they do.
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Amazing statistics. It should be obvious from those numbers why there are so many problems...
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