The Family
The educational environment has been extremely challenging the past few years as students and parents dealt with the pandemic, school closings, and remote learning. We all know how important good teachers and schools are to the development of our children. When you think about it our children spend as much time in school as they do with their families. And during these formative, impressionable young years, they can impact students lives in significant ways.
And while good teachers and schools are essential to the development of our children, the education and development of our children is the primary responsibility of the parents. We are the first and foremost teachers of our children, it is our duty and obligation to raise loving, kind, self-sufficient, productive children that will will lead to fulfilling lives and be contributing members of society. Yes, that's quite a responsibility! And of all the challenges that parents have nothing is more sacred than raising your children well.
One of the challenges is raising children today, is the emergence of single parent households. We know how hard it is to raise children with two parents, and I know firsthand the obstacles facing single mothers and single parents. The family unit has changed in a dramatic way over the past few decades. In the 1980's, approximately 80% of children were born in a two parent family. Today, the number of two parent families is 60% and that figure is dramatically lower for certain ethnicity's.
As we've shifted to a more materialistic and consumer based society, we've become more selfish and self absorbed. We see that the young generation is delaying marriage and deciding not to have children at all. There is no social policy that will overcome broken families. We cannot rely on our schools or the government to raise our families.
There is no greater responsibility or even moral imperative to raise our children and to quote the Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young song
Teach them Well!
With Love,
Coach K
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