Wow, can’t wait to read this book and thanks to a Principal who cares about our school and community as a whole. Thank you for going above and beyond.
Parenting with Love and Logic
The following is an excerpt from Parenting with Love and Logic. The decision made by Charlie is the decision that I want my sons and other students in the Raider Nation to make.
The gravity of the parenting task hit home some years ago when my son Charlie, was a teenager. Charlie asked to use the family car to go to a party . “It’s the party of the year,” Charlie said. “Everybody who’s anybody will be there.”
I trusted Charlie and would have loaned him the car, but I had a speaking engagement that same evening and couldn’t oblige. Charlie’s mother, Shirley, also had plans of her own for the second car.
“Why don’t you hitch a ride with Randy?” I suggested, referring to Charlie’s best friend.
Charlie shook his head. “That is okay. I understand. I guess I won’t go.” Then he went to his room. I knew something was up. This was the party of the year, so I talked to Charlie and pried loose some more information. Randy, it seemed, had started drinking at parties, and Charlie decided he would rather stay home than risk the danger of riding with a friend who was likely to drink and drive.
The night of the party, Randy, piled with booze, drove himself and five passengers off the side of a mountain at eighty miles per hour.
pg 21-22
This book provides tools and strategies to assist our children in making good decisions, like Charlie’s.
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By: Katrina on September 5, 2008
at 2:28 pm
