{"id":11540,"date":"2023-06-29T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sanpedrotoday.com\/?p=11540"},"modified":"2023-06-29T07:59:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T14:59:52","slug":"teach-your-children-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanpedrotoday.com\/2023\/06\/29\/teach-your-children-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Teach Your Children Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #1daeec;\"><i>\u201cYou, who are on the road, must have a code that you can live by.\u201d<\/i> \u2013 Graham Nash, 1968<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the executive director of the Boys &amp; Girls Club, I am terrified regarding the unacceptable behavior we are modeling for our youth, as our national and local behavior is the wrong message to send the young people growing up today. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Whether it is politics, race, or religion that drives this unacceptable behavior, it does not matter. \u201cTeach Your Children\u201d was written by Graham Nash and made famous by the group Crosby, Stills, Nash &amp; Young, which my generation listened to continually during our teen years. It is a haunting song, especially today, as we adults too often exhibit morally reprehensible and unethical behavior in full view of our children. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1daeec;\"><i>\u201cAnd you of tender years can\u2019t know the fears that your elders grew by. And so please help them with your youth. They seek the truth before they can die.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>One of the central tenets we adults emphasize throughout our child-rearing years is that actions have consequences and that we will be held responsible for what we do and say, while in reality, we continually \u201cexcuse away\u201d bad adult behavior. Today\u2019s most obvious example of this unacceptable adult behavior is our former president and his far too many civil and criminal indictments.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Of course, this isn\u2019t a political party monopoly. Locally, an L.A. City Councilman was recently charged with multiple counts of embezzlement, perjury, and conflict of interest. Add to this a Supreme Court justice \u2014 a representative of the highest law of our land \u2014 accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars of gifts over many years from a politically engaged donor without disclosing it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What are we teaching our children when we excuse these and far too many other examples of unlawful and unethical behavior? Why do we bemoan a youth stealing a sweatshirt, bullying or abusing peers, or continually lying when caught engaging in bad behavior when they see the same and much worse adult behavior condoned and excused daily when exhibited by our national leaders and even ourselves?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1daeec;\"><i>\u201cAnd teach your parents well. Their children\u2019s hell will slowly go by. And feed them on your dreams\u2026\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Have we come to a place where we must turn to our youth to \u201cteach us\u201d adults after we subject them to so much bad behavior and mixed messages? Why do we teach \u201clove thy neighbor\u201d in our churches and homes and then are unaccepting of people of different races, religions, and those from our LGBTQ+ community? This Supreme Court, after overturning Roe v. Wade, will soon consider whether to overturn and outlaw same-sex marriages \u2014 really? What\u2019s next? Roll back our civil rights laws and take away the vote from women?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Why do we advocate for \u201cpro-life\u201d while not willing to make AK-47s illegal, when at the same time, our children must practice \u201cactive shooter drills\u201d and later are subjected to watching footage of another mass killing of their peers? Why do we ban books that acknowledge our diversity, our imperfect history, or ideas not fully aligned with some of our individual positions while championing the First Amendment? Have we become an adult world where we should tell our children, \u201cDon\u2019t do as I do and don\u2019t do as I say\u201d?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1daeec;\"><i>\u201cDon\u2019t you ever ask them why. If they told you, you would cry. So just look at them and sigh\u2026\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sadly, we hide behind our political parties, religion, or race-preservation mentalities to rationalize our unacceptable \u201cadult\u201d behavior. I can only hope our children can see through our weaknesses, lies, and rationalizations.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On so many levels today, we are not the examples our children need and deserve. We must demand the best of our adult selves to give all our children a chance at a better future.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If not \u201cwell,\u201d can\u2019t we at least teach our children \u201cbetter\u201d? <strong><span style=\"color: #1daeec;\">spt<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou, who are on the road, must have a code that you can live by.\u201d \u2013 Graham Nash, 1968 As the executive director of the Boys &amp; Girls Club, I am terrified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":5936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Teach Your Children Well - San Pedro Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sanpedrotoday.com\/2023\/06\/29\/teach-your-children-well\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Teach Your Children Well - San Pedro Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cYou, who are on the road, must have a code that you can live by.\u201d \u2013 Graham Nash, 1968 As the executive director of the Boys &amp; 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