Published June 8, 2015
Indisciplined homes brings undisciplined communities which
guarantees the destruction of a Nation.
Are we as a people serious about regaining
a hold on our country, and do we realize that the first place to start is with
the area of discipline as a part of a larger re-socialization program and
strategic campaign?
The degradation of our moral and economic
fibre is largely responsible for the challenges we face today in almost every
sphere of our existence as a people and a country. This degradation is directly
related to the indiscipline which has been entrenched as a part of our culture.
Discipline starts in our homes and the
socialization of our children dictate the quality of the individual that will
be release in society as a participant in daily life activities. We repose that
every man is the sum total of his life experience up to the point of his
action. The first teachers are the parents who have the responsibility of
moulding and shaping the learning experience and values system to be inculcated
into the child. This process commence from the child is being developed in the
womb of the mother. What happens in the life of this child between birth and
three to five years old will set the foundation and tone for the type of life
he or she will live and also the emotional and physical pains that the parent
will suffer for a non-conforming child.
Jamaica of 2015 has seen the devaluation of
our social order and the institutionalizing of ill mannered and shameful
assaults on the society in general. This experience suggests a failure within
the structure of the “family” and the facilitating society. Much of the
maladies and ills can be attributed to a breakdown in the home, outside
influences, peer pressure, the music and entertainment fraternity, loose media
communication and a general sense of the lack of civic pride. Until we return
as a people to the days of high moral and ethical standards, an unequalled
value system, respect for self others and the environment and the recognition
of the importance of good hygiene, deportment and humility, we will not as a
people be able to progress beyond our limiting capacity.
If indeed we accept that discipline has to
be the first order of business to restore our country then we can appreciate
what can be achieved with a disciplined and responsive education system and by
extension a productive and economically viable system for National Development
and advancement. With such a sustainable system, it will be reasonable to
suggest that there will be less crime and violence and a strong and viable
economic system will evolve. more
Our country has obviously gone off course and the indiscipline has manifested itself in the society to the point that our more vulnerable women,children and youth are being slaughtered by misguided minds.Corruption and the low productivity is of serious cause for concern.Our government cannot legislate morality and values, these are attributes that must be taught from the homes and reinforced in our schools and communities. We must take back our country.Please join the re-socialization campaign at Unite Jamaica People."
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