Family & Parenting

Family Life (29 Responses)

Parent/Child Relationship (18)

• Parents and children are over programmed to point of frenzy
• Families need more family time
• Parents want stars or “trophy kids”
• Kids need fun, involvement, caring, presence and supervision from parents

Values (7)

• Moral decay and breakdown of family
• Families and community have lost sight of values
• Need to know where we stand with what’s right for kids
• Need balance between work and personal life
• Too much emphasis on competition and trophies
• Need sports to be FUN
• Let kids be kids

Family (4)

• Child neglect
• Single parents can’t always meet school schedules and demands
• More kids have problems and not enough time to deal with them
• Parents provide alcohol at parties

Community Culture (14 Responses)

Culture (9)

• Too busy, less time for what’s really important
• Too much competition
• No time for fellowship
• High expectations
• Parental indifference
• Substance abuse and denial

Youth (5)

• Kids growing up too fast
• Overprivileged youth and adolescents with too much money
• Peer pressure
• Couch potato kids
• Jock cliques

Programs (5 Responses)

• Need adolescent-centered family activities, nutrition courses for kids and parents, readily available parent education
• Publicize available support for motherhood challenges related to babies (postpartum disillusionment and depression)