Are You Raising a Cheater or a Fighter?

Are you inspiring your children to fight for the solution for any of the many things that afflict this nation and planet or are you demonstrating for them what it looks like to cheat life?

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By Nathaniel A. Turner, J.D.

I have a question for you to ponder. Are you raising a cheater or a fighter? I’m not asking if your child cheats on tests or video games, I’m wondering if you have any idea whether or not your behavior has inspired your children to cheat on life.

I’ve been observing our children for quite a while, and I’m convinced that too many of us are raising cheaters and not fighters. Daily I meet children and their parents who can best be described as corpses cheating life, members of the walking dead. Just like the undead, it’s as if these children and parents lack the empathy required to understand their obligation to make the world a better place.

In the tradition of Zombies, these parents and children go from day to day as if they are mindless, soulless creatures. Twenty-four, seven, three-sixty-five the Zombies exist without significant purpose. They give little or no thought to their responsibility to improve the human condition.