The gene pool or the parent sink-hole.

On my MSN news page, this morning, there was an article on children being born to be bad. The study suggested that argumentative parents, risk-taking tendencies, and confrontational personalities, were more likely to raise children that exhibited bad behavior. Bad behaviour being bulling, breaking rules, being confrontational with authority figures, argumentative, and other anti-social habits. If there is the tendency for the parents to confront each other, argue, and constantly have conflict in the home atmosphere, children are effected for life. Long-term conflict affects how children perceive love and feel loved. With the teenage pregancy rate of young girls rising beyond belief, we parents must look at what is happening at home or what isn't happening at home. One may argue, kids will be kids. I totally disagree. We parents need to live the example of what is best for our children. Are we teaching responsible, sacrificial, Godly love at home? Do our children know we base our decisions on prayer, consequences, concern, and just doing the right thing. With more young people cheating on tests, homework, projects, we must uphold the virtue of hardwork, effort, time and realizing one cannot be the BEST at everything. I am so aware of my failures when it comes to raising our children, and unfortunately, so are my children, but if we parents are so outraged at our young people's behaviour, we better be prepared to look at our own. Nothing is more damaging than to speak the truth and yet, know it couldn't be farther from the evidence in your life. I don't want to fall in the sink-hole of parenting. I want to see the warning signs on the road, so I can change my direction. There is a better way.