Providing Real Life Role Models
Recently Myra Turner wrote about the influence of song lyrics on teenagers and it got me to thinking about all of the ready-made role models our teens are digesting. Media personalities and sports heroes whom they are spoon-fed and led to believe are “role models.” It dawned on me that as parents, we need to combat those pseudo role models by helping to provide “real life” role models for our kids. Real life role models can be inspirational in their very ordinariness. Years ago, when my eldest daughter was in the fifth grade, her TAG class went on a field … Continue reading