It Takes a Village to raise a child
It Takes a Village to raise a child
The book 's title is attributed to an African proverb: "It takes a village to raise a child." The saying and its attribution as an "African" proverb were in circulation before it was adopted by Clinton as the source for the title of her book. The development of our children in this day and time is as hard as it was in our parent’s time. It takes the community as a whole, doctors, teacher, police, and local school administrators. These have an essential role to play in the growth and development of our children. All of these people have actions that are rearing the child in the way he or she needs to go. We see that more and more children are left with babysitters or strangers for the parents to be able to go to work, and these children are left with little or no guidance from their parents. Divorce and annulment figures seem to grow, these children are growing with a warped sense of family their values are lost and seem to lose their way in life. While the parents are still the main people in raising their child, there are other importances of other social institutions that step up in the life of the child as he or she grows. Today in our modern society we have took and sent our children to difference places as they grow. The school, community, stepparents, grandparents, fosters parents and other relatives that fit into the development of the child. When the child starts school they have after school activities, and different groups the child hangs out in. When school, parents, families and communities work together to support learning, students learn to earn higher grades and feel more successful in school and even in life. Not only the parents teach the children, but also the community who surround the child should share the responsibility of enlightening him with the knowledge of differentiation things which is good and which is not. “Keeping children healthy in body and mind is the family’s and
The book 's title is attributed to an African proverb: "It takes a village to raise a child." The saying and its attribution as an "African" proverb were in circulation before it was adopted by Clinton as the source for the title of her book. The development of our children in this day and time is as hard as it was in our parent’s time. It takes the community as a whole, doctors, teacher, police, and local school administrators. These have an essential role to play in the growth and development of our children. All of these people have actions that are rearing the child in the way he or she needs to go. We see that more and more children are left with babysitters or strangers for the parents to be able to go to work, and these children are left with little or no guidance from their parents. Divorce and annulment figures seem to grow, these children are growing with a warped sense of family their values are lost and seem to lose their way in life. While the parents are still the main people in raising their child, there are other importances of other social institutions that step up in the life of the child as he or she grows. Today in our modern society we have took and sent our children to difference places as they grow. The school, community, stepparents, grandparents, fosters parents and other relatives that fit into the development of the child. When the child starts school they have after school activities, and different groups the child hangs out in. When school, parents, families and communities work together to support learning, students learn to earn higher grades and feel more successful in school and even in life. Not only the parents teach the children, but also the community who surround the child should share the responsibility of enlightening him with the knowledge of differentiation things which is good and which is not. “Keeping children healthy in body and mind is the family’s and
References: Clinton, Hillary. It Takes a Village. New York: Touchstone book, 1996. Zondervan. The NIV Study Bible. Zondervan Corporation, 1995.