Children are taught by example
published: Friday | May 19, 2006

THE EDITOR, Sir:

The problem with mothers starts very early in the life of the child when children witness their mother's behaviour towards those in the extended family and the community. The mother's disrespect for person and property is inculcated into the child's psyche. Children are taught by example, that it is OK to be covetous, to steal and harm those who seem to have more.

Then when the children become criminals, the mothers dare not scold the child because the child will point out the mother's own short-comings. This is the problem.

In Toronto the Jamaican mothers use the drug money to live but when their sons are killed on the streets nightly, they are seen on television bawling. I often wonder what they are crying about, the loss of the income or the loss of the child.

I am, etc.,

O. BROWNE

colkatol@sympatico.ca

Toronto, Ontario

Via Go-Jamaica