OUR PRIVACY AND OUR CHILDREN


Invasion of our privacy is now everywhere. For some time businesses and the banks have known more about us than we want. Now the medical and the police systems know more and more about us. Terror will keep all this invasion going.

We try many ways to keep our privacy with walls, hedges, tinted glass, alarm and phone security systems. Seniors try to find a quiet place, often in a protected community. Meanwhile, in our crowded neighborhoods and high-rises, it’s tough to keep private.

If all this invasion keeps up will it mean that we will end up in caves, with guns and peep holes?

Among other problems, the most pressing being our children.

Privacy is not part of our children’s world. They weren’t born with the need for privacy, that is a learnt attitude that we teach our children. They are naturally open and forthright. Adding to this, there is no privacy on the street, on the school bus, in the school, in the mall or the new tell-all internet gadgets. Our children are exposed to the full wind of our commercial multi-media promoters and their openess is used.

We, the parents and grandparents have a tough choice to make. Are we going to let invasion of our privacy intimidate us so that we don’t do our job for our kids?

This will come down to practical questions like drugs, smoking, teen sex, sick media, porn and violence. The bad news is that all the police, teachers, and counselors cannot make our society safe for our kids to walk down the street.

The buck for all this stops at the family. If families get together themselves and with other families, they have the power to give children back the safe childhood they deserve.

For example, it means that a family takes a stand on smoking by helping each other. Then it encourages other families to share so that all become stronger and smoking starts to be licked. We all know the benefits of this - avoiding lung cancer, heart attacks, being unfit and even saving money. Everybody knows this is very smart. It is not happening because families aren’t taking control of smoking.

A family that quits smoking gives the world’s best message to the children.

Now, all we have to do is to find smart ways to communicate privately with one another. The terrorists have learned how. Eye on the Family is one way.

Take the first step by sharing with us your comments/concerns on THE FAMILY CHALLENGE by clicking on the comments field found below this blog.