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Responsibility - Own It

To all of you men who have fathered children but have no participation in raising those children. You are doing a disservice. You are an insult to the creed God gave. It is your responsibility to be up front and center. It is not your right to ignore one child but claim the other. To the woman who do not demand or allow his participation in his children lives, you are a part of the dysfunction that that child will carry be it birthed by you or another. If you are a wife and you are blocking him from his children before you, you are disrespecting your husband, if you demand him present in the children you two created but not in the ones before you, you are guilty as charged. Turn it around. Get your emotions in check, it is not about you, it is about the children. Stop feeding lies and discord. Stop playing the victim. Stop labeling by calling men who are trying dead beats. Stop thinking the government system will fix your problem just because of a right of child support. That pr...

It Starts With You

I was raised in a home where being respectful was more implied than verbally demanded. I knew that I had better respect any adult and it did not matter whether I knew them or not, whether in our home or not. I had best be very careful on how I spoke to any adult.  As a child this time of growing will show how a child will act and live as an adult and what contribution they will provide either negative or positive. It all starts in the home. Sad to say that many children and adults for that matter lack respect for self and others. Many have no idea the magnitude in which their behavior will have on their lives and how they will be received by society. As I write this post, I think back on the many, many, many, and many more times when I got a serious whipping by my mother, my aunt, and once my oldest sister even got in on the adventure of keeping me line. I even got a swat in school, and that really was not my fault. Now, let me be very clear. I grew up in a time wh...