How We Have Failed Our Children

It is hard to admit, but we have failed our children. It didn't happen overnight, but gradually and without us even realizing what we were doing. Maybe we thought we were doing the right thing, but it has come back to hurt our children in the long run.

If you were part of the baby boomers, then you grew up in an era that started out innocent, but ended in turmoil. You grew up with "flower power", "make love not war", you grew up with liberals ideas that we thought would change the world for the better. We were going to end racial bias, end the Vietnam War and prevent further war. Peace was going to be our legacy. We were going to be better people.

What have we accomplished? The same people who wanted to save the world, are destroying our country. Why did we allow prayer to be taken out of our schools? What purpose did it serve? Why do politicians and religious leaders encourage racial animosity? Why have unions allowed businesses to close up shop and move out of this country without a fight? When did we stop fighting for our freedoms and our liberty?

By trying to hard to give our children everything, we have given them nothing. We have created a generation of selfish, lazy and uncaring people. There are many who feel that something is owed them. There are many who feel hard work is beneath them. There are many who only want to take the easy way out. This is how we have failed our children.

If we don't do something to turn this country around, then there will be no legacy for our children. We need to start today, we need to return to the morals and values that helped our parents and grandparents through horrific personal, economic and political times. We need to put our personal differences aside and come together as one and repair the damage done to this country.

People will say it can't be done, but it can, if we only try. We only have to have the courage to take the first step.