It's Friday. Time for another school shoot
It's Friday. Time for another school shooting.
This is a multifaceted problem. There are many factors that play into WHY this is going on. I'm going to address one of them (my opinion may or may not apply to any specific scenario as I don't know any of the perpetrators). I think that parenting plays a major role here. We have a problem in our country of parents and children being disconnected from one another. We use technology as baby sitters for our little ones. We allow tweens and younger to have their own social media accounts. We put no restrictions on internet access for our teenagers. We also allow ourselves (the parents) these indulgences. But, this is not the only issue pulling us apart.
Our kids are over scheduled. We taxi them from one activity to another with our only time together being the time spent in the car. Over time, our kids develop the impression that the way to please the parents is to be successful in activity after activity.
I also think that some parents spend more time being their child's friend than being the parent. This has created a generation of over-indulged kids who cannot deal with disappointment. In some cases, kids have rarely, if ever, been told no or had their behavior corrected.
But, I may be biased. I have 4 nephews who are all young adults ages 21-26. They have been raised with every advantage possible in our culture. of the 4, only one of them is positively contributing to society. The other 3 live at home with their parents (different parents). Two of them have "jobs" but are working fast food less than 20 hours a week. They all spend their time sitting on their duffs, playing video games all night, then sleeping all day. They indulge in alcohol, weed and who know what else. I don't think any of the 3 could pass a drug test, even if they ever had the desire to better themselves. 2 of them have failed out of college, the other never had the gumption to try. These are men who were never required to lift a finger at home, not even so much as to feed the pets, pick up their own dirty laundry, make their beds, cook a meal for themselves, or even get themselves up and fed before school...hired help for all the household tasks. Plus, they always have had every toy or electronic available as soon as it was released. To this day, they don't have to pay their own way for anything. Any money they earn is spent on drugs and alcohol. While their parents continue to provide for them.
Anyway, after that long story, my nephews did not get their parents love and attention (they still don't). What they got was their parents money. And I think there is a lot of this kind of problem in the wealthy communities that are now being overrun with drugs and violence.