To the editor: Visitor contributors Naomi Schaefer Riley and Sally Satel current a case of wanting higher parenting by pulling out an unconnected checklist of issues, behaviors and observations regarding teenagers and their mother and father (“What children want — and adults have to know — to fight the youth psychological well being disaster,” June 17). Lack of faith, lack of sturdy relationships, quick access to hashish (regardless of entry to different medication like alcohol, depressants, drugs, and so on.) and the rising variety of single-family households.
Briefly, they lay out the ever-present case that there are lots of teenagers who’re floundering and current their very own pet concepts with out a lot justification as to methods to resolve this drawback. In fact, younger folks frequently attending any kind of healthful occasion weekly might be extra more likely to really feel higher about themselves, whether or not it’s a non secular service, Boy Scout/Lady Scout conferences or different youth teams or faculty golf equipment. In fact, mother and father paying extra consideration to their teenagers by spending time doing optimistic issues with them will assist.
It’s unlucky that with all of the optimistic issues that could possibly be instructed, these authors use an ever-present drawback to steer everybody towards what appear to be their private favourite options quite than making an attempt to counsel that oldsters discover issues that may work for his or her and their youngster’s private conditions.
Michael Lampel, Granada Hills
