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Vicki:  Thank you.  In our [[culture]], when [[children]] reach an adolescent or young adult age, they are often resistant to [[spiritual]] [[guidance]], and [[parents]] find it difficult to engage them in [[spiritual]] activity.  I [[understand]] that some of this is part of our [[culture]]’s inability to provide a continuous spiritual growth throughout their childhood.  Does it also have something to do with ages and [[stages]] of [[spiritual]] [[development]] that we [[experience]] as well?

Vicki:  Thank you.  In our [[culture]], when [[children]] reach an adolescent or young adult age, they are often resistant to [[spiritual]] [[guidance]], and [[parents]] find it difficult to engage them in [[spiritual]] activity.  I [[understand]] that some of this is part of our [[culture]]’s inability to provide a continuous spiritual growth throughout their childhood.  Does it also have something to do with ages and [[stages]] of [[spiritual]] [[development]] that we [[experience]] as well?

Parental Commitment and conscious intention in childrearing

*Parental Commitment and conscious intention in childrearing

   

   

MONJORONSON:  Not so much.  Again, this [[culture]] is awfully [[busy]]; it is the [[busyness]] it has given itself [that] is far too high and occupies too much [[time]].  The time that parents took in the evenings to read bedtime stories, [[parables]] and [[morals]] to [[children]] while they were in preschool years is commendable, and there is no reason why this same [[commitment]] to time and tucking the children in bed with stories and [[wisdoms]] and later on [[meditations]] and [[prayers]], could not and should not continue.  It is the [[choice]] of the [[parent]] to be distracted by other [[things]], rather than their children.  It is unfortunate that in this [[culture]], children who go to school come [[home]] and have dinner and then every [[individual]] in the household goes their own way.  This is not how a [[family]] is built; this is not how [[communities]] are built and maintained, so that they are morally and socially sustainable.  Again, it is the parent’s [[responsibility]] to take the time to be with their [[children]] and to engage them.  It is much like teaching young [[children]] and [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence adolescents] [[http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial Arts martial arts]—it requires [[time]], [[patience]], [[diligence]], instruction and time to [[practice]] those [[skills]].  It is admirable to see children [[learning]] [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tae_Kwon_Do tae kwon do] and [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate karate], and the martial arts lend themselves to [[discipline]] of the [[mind]] and [[prayer]] and [[relationship]] to the [[divine]] as well.  We see no loss of [[continuum]] in this [[learning]] [[process]].  It is a matter of your culture being too busy and too distracted by [[individual]] needs, to spend [[time]] with their [[children]].  Parents are far too invested in their [[careers]], and the obligations of their duties to their employment.  Many other [[cultures]]—even western cultures—do not invest this kind of unreal amounts of time to their careers after hours, when they are with their [[families]].  

MONJORONSON:  Not so much.  Again, this [[culture]] is awfully [[busy]]; it is the [[busyness]] it has given itself [that] is far too high and occupies too much [[time]].  The time that parents took in the evenings to read bedtime stories, [[parables]] and [[morals]] to [[children]] while they were in preschool years is commendable, and there is no reason why this same [[commitment]] to time and tucking the children in bed with stories and [[wisdoms]] and later on [[meditations]] and [[prayers]], could not and should not continue.  It is the [[choice]] of the [[parent]] to be distracted by other [[things]], rather than their children.  It is unfortunate that in this [[culture]], children who go to school come [[home]] and have dinner and then every [[individual]] in the household goes their own way.  This is not how a [[family]] is built; this is not how [[communities]] are built and maintained, so that they are morally and socially sustainable.  Again, it is the parent’s [[responsibility]] to take the time to be with their [[children]] and to engage them.  It is much like teaching young [[children]] and [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence adolescents] [[http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial Arts martial arts]—it requires [[time]], [[patience]], [[diligence]], instruction and time to [[practice]] those [[skills]].  It is admirable to see children [[learning]] [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tae_Kwon_Do tae kwon do] and [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate karate], and the martial arts lend themselves to [[discipline]] of the [[mind]] and [[prayer]] and [[relationship]] to the [[divine]] as well.  We see no loss of [[continuum]] in this [[learning]] [[process]].  It is a matter of your culture being too busy and too distracted by [[individual]] needs, to spend [[time]] with their [[children]].  Parents are far too invested in their [[careers]], and the obligations of their duties to their employment.  Many other [[cultures]]—even western cultures—do not invest this kind of unreal amounts of time to their careers after hours, when they are with their [[families]].