Parents, do you know where your teen is? 

Better yet, teen, do you know where you parents are?

What is going through the mind of these teenagers that go around, stealing, vandalizing and creating crime?  Once again tragedy has struck our city again, caused by teens taking the life of a workingman.  I’m thoroughly disgusted by it!

What are they thinking?  I was a teen once; never in my widest dreams did I ever think to steal a car, beat another person or shoot them!  Heck, I wouldn’t even know how to fire a gun or where to find it!  I just don’t understand what is going through their minds. 

When I was 15 I think my biggest concern was my hair and clothes and what music I had on tape.  Now these kids are running around helter-skelter, killing, thieving and causing the rest of society grief.   Don’t they every think of cause and effect?  Do these crazy teens not realized that they will have to live the REMAINDER of their life knowing that they killed a man?  What a heavy burden to carry.  And all of this hurt and devastation occurred out of plain old stupidity. 

I strongly believe that these kids know the difference between right and wrong, but why do they do the wrong?  These seem to know they have the system beat and that they are protected by the Young Offenders Act.  But what happens when they are 18 and still doing this crap? Still nothing, our great judicial system does nothing.

All of this violence and crime is a terrible thing and it tells me a few things about what is going on in society:

Parents are not accountable and responsible for their kids.  Why are 15 year olds running around the streets at 15 years old?  They should be at home, behind locked door and under the care of their parents.  Parents, why do you NOT know where your kids are?  Too busy?  Then UNBUSY yourself!  These are your kids! Why would you let them run around?  If you, as parents, won’t look after your kids who else do you expect to look after them? WAKE UP! Control your children! 

Kids have too much!  They have too much money, they have too many toys, they just have too much stuff all together! Parents give them everything! Why do they need all of the latest gadgets given to them and have others beat them up and steal.  There are MANY people who have survived perfectly well with out the iPod hanging from their left ear and the cell phone from their right while wearing the latest fashions, jewelry and perfumes.  None of those things help a person to survive and grow up!  People, STOP enabling these kids to have EVEYRTHING!!  Look at what’s happening!  These brats don’t have an inkling to the value of a dollar.

These kids have no structure.  How many of these car-thieving kids have household chores to do?  Or even an afterschool job? I bet not one! The kids aren’t accountable to anyone and neither are the parents.  They’ve had no structure; they’ve never been told what to do and made to do it!  They can’t even show up to court on time for the crime because they are out trying to steal another car to get the courthouse!  Doesn’t that make you MAD????

I’ve had it hearing about the horrible nasty beasts of kids growing up!  I’ve never been one to feel it be necessary for boot camps and harsh prisons.... but now that’s all changed.  Throw them in jail, make them work, show them what they have to do to survive in life, make them be thankful that they have a roof over their head!  Give them bread and water in prison!  Better yet, don’t take them away from the accident, crime scene and hand them back to their unaccountable parents.  Make them stick around, see the physical damage they done to their surroundings and persons they’ve harmed.  Let them see the families of those that they’ve hurt emotionally and scarred for life. Let them see the pain, the heartache, the struggles that they put people through.  Really show them what their actions have caused.  No one seems to show these little criminals that. 

What is it going to take for society to turn around?  Why should we have to fear to walk down the street, to drive or park our cars that we work hard for?   Why do we have to continually shell out our hard earned dollars to fix, replace and repair all the damage these brats of have caused us? Don’t say a tragedy because there have been far too many of those already.