Linda Brown

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  Linda commented on the article | over 2 years ago

  Closure of Schools in Chicago May Have Led to Teen Violence

   

  
  

  Thank you for responding. Your comment is sensible to some. I am sure not to all.

  
  

  My mother was a single parent of six children. I am the single parent of seven grown children (endured childhood molestations, rapes and other forms of mental illness). I did not sell my body or do drugs just to make ends meet not did my mother. I was not easy for my mother or me. We used what we had (in other words, “We made do”). My mother worked two jobs at times and made sure that we were in a child’s place. When she couldn’t afford us clothes from the store, she made them. When there was not enough food, she grew a garden. As a single parent, you learn to be resourceful and not the unthinkable. It is about what you can do without and the respect one has for themselves and their children and others. Society said that to discipline my children is “Child Abuse”. I say that America’s juvenile justice is beyond abuse. It doesn’t matter how many generations past one has to look back and see where the failures begin at home. The parent or caregiver is a child’s first idol.

  
  

   

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  Linda commented on the article | over 2 years ago

  Closure of Schools in Chicago May Have Led to Teen Violence

   

  
  

  Stop blaming “Society” and the “Government” for what has happen in Chicago. It is happening everywhere in America. Only the parents of these children know what they have been taught. A child learns what he lives and it begins at home. Sure parents have to work but there should still be rules to follow. Go into your child’s room and make sure there is nothing in your house that wasn’t purchased by you or your child’s allowance. If that child is not at home at a certain hour, go look for him/her. I parents stop trying to have things (buying Xbox, Ipods, etc…) and focus on raising an ethical well nourished, well behaved child, the violence in many of our neighborhoods would decrease. If many stop running up in the four walls of the “Church” and talk to your children, use the rod of correction, our wardens at the jails and detention centers won’t have a job to do. The Violence Stops At Home!