Have you made sure to connect and spend an hour or more daily with your child, and show your interest in their interests, despite your dislike for what they are into? Do you crutch on the fact that you are single parent and have no time or it’s a two parent working family, and there is no time to spend daily? Make the time, and do what you can with the little time you may have to make it quality and special, because if you are not doing this, you definitely do no have the right to blame outside influences on why your youth is part of the lost generation.

Do you have an open door policy with regards to communication, meaning can your child speak to you openly about every topic they are faced with, and will they get your respect and genuine understanding? Or, do you shut the door on communication because the topics may go against your principles, your morals, your belief, so you shut out the conversation with a disassociated “NO” response?

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Psalm 127:1-3

“Unless the LORD builds the house,  its builders labor in vain.  Unless the LORD watches over the city,  the watchmen stand guard in vain. In vain you rise early  and stay up late,  toiling for food to eat—  for he grants sleep to ^[a] those he loves. Sons are a heritage from the LORD,  children a reward from him.”

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