By Chu The Cud | November 8, 2026
The family unit breaks down. Parents become absent, influenced or distracted. Smartphones and social media become babysitters and children eat Tide Pods for fun.
Pornography is one click away. Grand Theft Auto makes crime entertainment and murder fun. Marijuana is legalized and unchecked, and psychedelic mushrooms increasingly decriminalized, and schools become ideological political battlegrounds.
But here’s the uncomfortable truth: None of these influences excuses adults from their responsibility to raise children.
Freedom without discipline breeds entitlement. Rights without responsibility breed chaos. And children without guidance are left to learn right from wrong from whoever captures their attention.
We cannot surrender our authority to technology, entertainment, schools, and government, then complain about the results.
Children are clay. Every influence leaves an impression.
Parents have the first responsibility. Teachers reinforce it. Society shares it. And no one gets to walk away from it.
Stop blaming the children for the world adults created.
Children are very, impressionable, vulnerable, and capable of becoming something extraordinary o dangerous
But when parents remove their hands, someone else takes their place.
And who is doing the molding.
— Chu The Cud © 2026. All Rights Reserved.
