What's Da Buzz?

continuation of “The Real Game Part One“

Here in the USA, I’ve watched many kids pick fights with their younger or older siblings or talk back to their parents with no respect at all. I’ve even seen a four year old girl try and tell her Mom what she was going to do when she was playing outside. That ended after she tried to relieve herself behind a tree. The screaming match happened right afterwards in their home. You could hear it outside.

Other kids bully others and treat them like a servant telling them to act like their doggy. Others still throw a fit if their game system gets turned off. Some kids do show proper respect to their parents but there are equal amounts that yell and try to bully their parents. The laws have become so restrictive on how to parent, the children are not given a reason to fear or respect their parents. Combined with messages from media, schools and other kids, the children are often encouraged to fight against their parents.

At times it seems like the USA culture is acting like a spoiled, undisciplined child in need of a good slap in the face. Who knows what it will take for those pushing the lack of values to realize the damage they are doing to the country they are living in.

What then are we to do with our children who are of two heritages? How do we balance the expectations we have for their behavior with what they are being told by many of the other sources? The best answer I’ve found is a bit vague or undefined. You have to start before the child is born to set the tone in the home then live it yourself. Homeschooling (option) is also an answer as well. Most importantly is taking our children to see where we grew up so they can respect what they have. Then they will see with their own eyes how children with far less can have far greater happiness.

Please take a look at the photo below (photo credits: Bob of Mindanao.com). The happiness can be seen in their eyes regardless of the level of wealth they do or do not have.

It is these values of life we will make certain our daughter remembers. The best way of making certain is trips back to the Philippines every few years to remember how her relatives live and how happiness is tied to respect and loving others and life itself. Should she ever get an attitude as a teenager, my brother would make a wonderful host for a summer month. *wink*

Anah

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