To the editor: Visitor contributors Naomi Schaefer Riley and Sally Satel current a case of wanting higher parenting by pulling out an unconnected record 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 robust relationships, quick access to hashish (regardless of entry to different medicine like alcohol, depressants, medicines, and many others.) and the growing 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 the best way to clear up this drawback. In fact, younger folks commonly 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 constructive issues with them will assist.
It’s unlucky that with all of the constructive issues that may very well be prompt, these authors use an ever-present drawback to steer everybody towards what appear to be their private favourite options reasonably than trying to recommend that oldsters discover issues which may work for his or her and their baby’s private conditions.
Michael Lampel, Granada Hills
