Who saw the news story of the toddlers fighting on U Tube? I did, and it made me so sad. You can hear the father of one of the boys egging it on….these are the kids that are going to grow up right along side of ours, and sit next to our kids in class.
Yes kids fight, and hit, but aren’t we supposed to teach them not to? Maybe I’m being dramatic, but when kids don’t even feel protected by their own parents, what do they grow up to become?
It’s not that the parent’s are so degenerate they have their toddlers fighting in a 3- year-old version of a street brawl, it’s the fact that they find it a source of entertainment and want other people to enjoy it with them.
From what the news story says, there’s plenty of parents that find the same thing entertaining and have posted their own videos. Obviously they aren’t interested in getting any parenting awards, but they don’t seem to worried about having their children taken away either.
I feel so sorry for these kids and I think at the very least, these parents should be put on probation and be forced into counseling. I’m not saying these parent’s would do anything more than they have already done, but a lot of parenting is simply setting boundaries. These parents probably never learned boundaries of their own and who knows where it could lead if no one teaches them some?
On the other hand, we have at the very least, a dad that insinuated he had a gun, when he visited his daughter at school. Apparently upset over bullying, he decided to put and end to it. He let the bully or bullies know he was serious. I don’t know the facts of the story and I hesitate to judge him as harshly as the parent’s who exploit their children, because he was trying to protect his daughter. It seems his heart was in the right place, but his brain was so angry it refused to listen to common sense. It makes me wonder though, didn’t he too become a bully, and what about EVERY student at that school feeling safe again? He didn’t just hurt the middle school “bullies” he hurt everyone their, and his actions may put him in jail, separating him from the person he was trying to protect.
I don’t really know the answer….or the question, but I do know that we need to pray for the future of our children because it doesn’t seem like their is a clearing in the horizon.