Ok, so I was discussing our campaign, Faith in Our Youth, with some of my friends and a very touchy subject came up by one of the participants in our conversation. The question seemed to bring a very cold silence throughout the conversation, but then came up with many different opinions. This cold question was, do you think that the upbringing of how a parent raised their child is the representation of how the child's life is today.
Yes, I know, deep question. Don't ask me how it came up, but it did. The first answer to this question was yes, and the reason being was that they believed that the way a parent raises their child, from the beginning, shapes the life of their offspring. They used the example of racism. If the child was brought up with a particular thought of a member of a different race, that is how they will see everyone. She brought up a specific example of one of her earlier classmates from high school. She explained that her classmate's dad always made it seem like African Americans were always looking for trouble and they were always up to no good. This made him grow up to believe that most African American people just want to find trouble and, in that, always made sly remarks about a person of that race.
With that opinion, an opposite one was said. They believed that parents do not make the child. They went on by saying the when a child is old enough to understand certain situation, they can make their own sense out of that situation. They used an example of one of their classmate's parents. They said that the parents had sent their child to different christian school's their whole life, that they also went to church every Wednesday and Sunday, and that they had family prayer every night; but their child still grew up to be very disobedient and rebellious.
The situations are very different but also both prove a point. What do you think?
Operation: KIDS