But I believe that parents should be their children's first role models. I believe that children should look at their parents and say, you know what? I want to be like my dad. I want to be like my mom. I want to be like my older sister, my older brother. I think we should look at the people right within our immediate family as role models first. Before anointing athletes, singers, rappers, s and other public figures such as presidents and vice presidents, et cetera
Kitha Larie
@chitchatwithkk · 4:40
She can't go holy and all religious or else people might not follow her. The same thing with Black China. Like, I love the black China, decided to take out all her injections and all of that. But at the same time, people were talking about black China. She's not there. She's not there. All because reality TV and the way that she carried herself. But she carried herself that way
Andrea Piggue
@Andrea_Speaks · 4:56
I don't know how they treat people at home. I don't know what they say at home. And so, you know, find somebody else to be wanting to be like, you know what I'm saying?
Andrea Piggue
@Andrea_Speaks · 3:48
You can be a CEO of a company, you can start your own business or you could go to school and you can be a CEO of a company. Work your way up through the ranks and become CEO. You know what I'm saying? You can become a doctor. You could become a lawyer. You could become a teacher. You know what I'm saying? You could become a welder ain't nothing wrong with those professions
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 4:07
Like, if I had to choose someone, it's like, yeah, but I think sometimes parents seem to pass that responsibility on to other people instead of saying, hey, I can be my child's role model. I may not be an athlete, I may not be a singer, but still, I have character and I have morals and values and principles that I want my child to have when they become an adult. So thank you so much, SIS, for chiming in
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 4:42
And so I'm not knocking them because again, they're not signing up to be my child's role model, but I don't want my child looking to them as a role model
Andrea Piggue
@Andrea_Speaks · 2:43
I don't find it funny in the least bit. The girl. And they put in all these real short skirts and dresses, shorts on these babies and got them walking around here. Oh, my God. Definitely we on the same page
Swati Sharma
@Swatiselflove · 2:32
So that's far more important than just being a role model to a child because it's not important that you have to be a role model. A child can pick up a role model even from the outside world. It's not always in the family, but yes, in the family itself. We can try our level best to have a conducive environment, a happy environment, a more mature environment
Amy Pendle
@Blind_Profit · 3:30
Does it align with what you want your child to learn? So it does come from an awareness as a parent how your child is interacting with the world around them and what they're bringing home and how you can make that a teachable rather than a punishable moment and teach out of love. If our parenting styles were more aligned with the role of love, I believe that we would see a significant change in the way our society idolizes things outside of family values
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 1:19
And so they may need to look to another authority figure in their life that is living good character and morals and model after that versus what is in their own home. I guess it's just a matter of teaching children which behavior is healthy versus which one is unhealthy, because a child, of course, is not going to immediately look at their parents harmful lifestyle and think, oh, that's bad. They don't know any different
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 1:25
I think it's a beautiful thing when our children can look at us as their role models and not have to look for it in entertainment or sports or other places outside of the people that they see and talk to every single day
Jill Benoff
@jillbenoff · 3:28
Good morning. Great topic. I love it. I have a son who is about to turn 30 in January, and I divorced his father when he was five. His father's a terrible role model, still is. But, you know, boys always want to have their fathers in their lives, and that's a whole nother story. And another topic, but I chose the unconventional way to raise him