Agenda - Council - 05/27/1997 - Laserfiche WebLink

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I I I I '1 I I I I. I I I I I I I I I have no respect for District #11. No.w my kids are attending Anoka-Ramsey Community College instead of your wasteful senior high in Anoka. Parents and teachers should help children identify their strengths and encourage positive activities that promote them. Kids I work with in SeniOr High have no hobbies, nothing to do, so they medicate themselves. I would like to see anger management classes in middle school for kids who act before they think. Mentoring programs, encouraging extra curricular activities. Sex education, teen parents should be taught in depth to younger kids with real life situations. Family/Homelife · When both parents have to work to make ends meet the day cares are the only place values if any are learned. Parents are too tired when they come home. What will happen to family and kids values in the generation raised with very little family time or values. Family won't mean much. · Getting them to feel they can open up and also trust their parents to communicate with them. · Start at home first. Encourage parents to get involved and then when they do listen to them. Get rid of the politics, stop focusing on political correctness. Work on being correct. · I feel parents need to educate their children more at home. Parents should utilize the resources available and educate their children. Teaching children common sense goes a long way. · Our youth need help. Too many working mothers are not.at home for their children. Nothing will change until they family unit becomes stronger in the home. Families need all the help they can get from the community. Thank you for all your big efforts! · Ali of the above areas are very important, but family and these issues are even more important. · 1 think people in these communities are spending too much time in traffic congested areas and trying to do some of life's basic necessities such as grocery shopping. We need more stores and better roads. The few minutes here and there that are wasted by such activities could be very valuable to families. I believe the tired parents are the biggest problem affecting quality time spent with children. I realize children come from all sorts of family situations but I don't see how you can change too much if the parents in those homes are not good role models. Also, I don't think it's fair to have all children educated about these issues when for some kids ,these thing are not an issue in their world. To me, childhood shouldn't carry such heavy issues unless necessary. My 18 year old disagrees with me, he says you can't address some kids and not others about these things. So it's best to talk about it across the board. He says for him, he didn't mind and it was just a good waste of class time (his words). My other teenage son agrees that it's a good waste of time and most of the kids laugh about these classes. They attended Andover Elementary through 5th grade. · Seems as if our youth are best wi~h activities, can hardly eat an evening meal with their families. Perhaps encouragement toward more FAMILY ACTIVITIES and CHURCH ACTIVITIES would be helpful. "Free up" Wednesday evenings as it used to be, e.g., in Anoka. Meeting with parents first. Teach them how to be good examples and how to love and train their own kids. That the kids are their privilege and responsibility. · I don't want to over emphasize the drug issue because I think family involvement, adult involvement and structured outlets will help more than.lecturing about drugs. · Keep promoting family activities in communities. Inform families through local newspapers about healthy activities for youth and reasons why they benefit kids. · Youth First is a Key Club/Kiwanis theme. Be sure to involve those groups too. They have project ideas already set. · I am a volunteer with the Lutheran Social Services. Strengthening families as well as a focus on youth is important. Improved parenting skills is key. · I believe all of these values need to begin from the home and if not available there, then relationship (conversation) with another adult is important (good role models is what's needed). ,5'O 5