Teach Your Kids Some Responsibility!
A new Pew Research Center survey shows more than half of adults believe responsibility is one of the most important values to teach children.
According to the survey, 55 percent of the 3,243 adults – especially those in the 30 to 64, and 65 and beyond age groups – interviewed believe responsibility is one of the most important values to teach children.
Alex Chediak, an engineering professor at California Baptist University who authored the parenting guide Preparing Your Teens for College after seeing students struggle to adapt to the college environment, believes the survey's results reflect a growing backlash against today's self-indulgent youth culture.
Chediak explained, "The youth culture of our day – promoted in movies, music, and magazines – is narcissistic and myopic. It shouts at teens to put off adulthood as long as possible, to seek maximum pleasure in the moment, and to put self above all else."
He also believes that the older and more mature adults become, the more clearly they see the threat that this self-indulgent culture may pose on society and desire to raise their children differently.
