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Kids aren't born to be bad. They don't want to be bad.

No child grows up wanting to be a murderer, a drug addict, a wife beater or a divorcé.

Most often young people turn to bullying, theft, gangs, addictions such as drugs and alcohol and other antisocial behaviours as their way of coping with situations beyond their control.

Unlike pet dogs and cats who will overtly ask for attention and patting, human children do not. However, we humans need to be touched by someone who loves us as much as any other animal. That lack of sufficient touch most commonly is the root cause of bullying, for example.

Lack of the kind of response from parents that raises self esteem in children often causes them to turn to those who will give them a sense of self and of appreciation easiest. Self-bolstering praise and rewards commonly form the bonds between members of counter culture communities, gangs and smaller antisocial groups.

Of course parents can't be blamed solely for children who grow to be antisocial or socially problematic. Can a person be blamed for not knowing something?

Yes. City councils and various legislative bodies frequently pass laws or bylaws that affect many constituents, though they have no means of disseminating information about those regulations to the very people they affect. When driving your car, you are expected to adhere to speed limits even if no signs are posted.

Parents routinely get blamed for their failure to act as "responsible parents" because they don't know what their kids need. Or when they need it. In reaction, many parents give their children televisions, computers and video games to keep them home and "out of trouble," situations that form the beginnings of obesity and antisocial behaviours.

Kids don't know what they should do, how they should behave, unless we tell them. Better, we should show them, participating with them in activities where the parents act as role models.

Parents can't do what they should as parents if they have never been shown how to be good parents themselves. For most of us, parenting means acting as our own parents acted toward us. What our parents didn't know about parenting becomes what we don't know about parenting. Worse, something may be lost in the generational jump.

The book Turning It Around: Causes and Cures for Today's Epidemic Social Problems was specifically crafted to provide teachers and parents with the information they need to know to be good "parents."

It even has one appendix for teachers and another specifically for parents. TIA, as it is known around the world, is the essential guide for parents and teachers who want to fulfill well and properly their most important role in life, teaching children.

If we want children to grow equally as well socially and emotionally as they do intellectually and physically, we need to know what to provide for them.

The book Turning It Around: Causes and Cures for Today's Epidemic Social Problems fills that need.

Turning It Around: Causes and Cures for Today's Epidemic Social Problems tells what kids need--what they inherently know they need, even if they can't express their needs in words--not what adults believe that kids should be taught to prepare them for the workplace. Until we address the needs that children have for themselves, personal problems and the resulting social problems will continue to get worse, deeper and more abundant.

Despite it university paper-sounding title, Turning It Around is as easy to read as this page. The book is filled with information parents and teachers should know.

Most of our current community and personal problems can be traced back to parents and teachers not knowing the information in this book. It's time everyone knew this.

Ordering information for online or bookstore purchase is on the left above.

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"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought."
- Albert Szent-Gyvrgyi, Nobel Prize for Medicine 1937  

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Turning It Around: Causes and Cures for Today's Epidemic Social Problems