Essay on The Children Are Our Future

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Marie hoover

Prof. orgier
ENG

‎4/‎23/‎2012 The Children Are Our Future

What the world needs now is for the parents of today's children to step up and teach their children to be respectful, caring, and compassionate children, which will one day turn into adults. One of the problems is the laws on child abuse and the way children are raised today, compared the way children are raised today to thirty years ago or even before that, is not the same. Kids today have little or no respect for their elders, teachers, or even law enforcement. I would have never talked to any adult the way some of these children today talk to the adults in their life's. These are the same children that are our future. Part
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According to the article Raising Children in the 2000s, Children these days bully other children to the point that they try killing themselves or someone else, and all because someone don't have name brand clothes or because they are different than the other children physically or mentally. I believe that in order for our children to be honest up standing citizens they first need to be taught respectful children. In order to teach the children of today to be good adults they first need their parents to teach them to honest, compassionate adults. The community that we live in can help teach our children how to become compassionate, responsible adults that respect one another. It was once said that "It takes a neighborhood to raise a healthy and respectful child". If we were to allow the teachers, law enforcement, and neighbor's to help us raise our children, and teach our children to respect these people and to listen to them the children of our future would be ready to take the worlds responsibilities' upon them when the time comes, but without the help of the community these children will not learn what they need to take the world on when there time comes. The child abuse laws need to be in place but they've gone too far and parents need to be allowed to spank their