Do you sometimes wonder why our children get into trouble? Why would our child, that we have showered with so much love, do something totally against the rules of society? Didn�t I always try to teach that beautiful child right from wrong?

Well, perhaps not. Perhaps what I said didn�t speak near as loud as what I DID.

Every time I see a mother walking home from the market with her children, pushing a shopping cart, I think of the message she is giving those children- stealing is permissible... (And that�s what taking a shopping cart is - stealing.) Every shopping cart taken(stolen) from a market cost you about 8 cents tacked on your shopping dollar.

Or how about the father with his family in the car telling them to keep an eye out for �cops� because he wants to get there as soon as possible. Later he wonders why his teen age kid had to go to court for speeding. Or worse, why he was burying his child because of an automobile accident.

Or what about the couple who watches a trashy movie on T.V. with their children? Then later on they are trying to cope with the grand child their unmarried child brought into the world.

And, it gets worse. The parent who gets wiped out of their mind on drugs or drink because they think it�s fun, then has to bail out their child on a drug charge.

Sabbath morning arrives in most households across America with the kids getting the breakfast cereal out and making their breakfast because �It�s the only day we can sleep in.� The children has no idea what church is about and will, no doubt, grow up without anyone to pray to. I suppose that�s all right, considering that they never learn how to pray anyway.

Oh, and don�t forget the candidate the family supports. The sins of these candidates are not overlooked by those intelligent children. The message they get is that in order to �be somebody� you need to be a slime-ball.

Often parents consider their children without brains, which are developed as they grow up. However, when a child is born it has as many fingers, toes, eyes, ears, ect, as it will ever have. That child also has all the brains it will ever have. It may loose some of these parts as life goes on, but it cannot get more. It�s just that the brain, just like the fingers, toes, ect, must be trained. This training should be THE BEST POSSIBLE!
- - - - Tom