Some might think that my last post was a little harsh. However, real life usually is. One might also wonder what parenting has to do with this Depression blog, it has a lot to do with it when you are the parent of a depressed person!

If we as parents did a better job at raising fine kids, we would better equip them with the tools they need to survive in this cruel world.

Kids are developing Depression at younger and younger ages than they were ten years ago! Our kids are freaking out. They don't know how to make real decisions. To them a choice is chocolate or vanilla ice cream!

When they are faced with real problems, they panic, don't measure consequences then when they have made the wrong choice, the get depressed. Then us parents are surprised and don't understand what went wrong or why our kids keep screwing up!

Because we didn't show them how to make wise decisions, how to think things through, not take things personally and show them that their best is enough. All these things feed into growing a strong healthy person.

Had certain values, lesson, wisdoms and concepts been shown to kids, the less chance there will be for them to ever have depression. Just like we should all be building up our immune systems, we need to help our kids build their ME Reflex too!


Now for the lax parents. You need to care more about your kids. Letting them roam the streets mean that the streets will teach them. Don't call yourself a parent if you are letting the world bring up your child.

Then when your kid goes missing or worse, you all cry and panic when you should be the one to blame. It's called neglect. You neglected to give a crap about where and who your kid hangs around with. How do you not know what your kids is doing? I don't get how people can care so little about their kids.

The world is not what it used to be. There are really bad people out there who are just waiting for you not to care about your kid. They are sitting around watching and loving how you leave you child to fend for itself.

Tell me, how are kids going to get involved in drugs, gangs, and sex if they are sitting in your house doing something productive while dinner is being made?


I just want to slap some parents!

We can prevent all these meltdowns that our kids are having if we just started to look at our parenting. We can give them the tools need to cope with life's problems and show them how to make the wiser choices and accept responsibility for their actions. As a parent you can help decrease the statistics of Depression in the younger generation.

Always

Dr. Nobody