Time for tough love?

Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Dec 27, 2007 by Carolyn Vermont

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("Perspectives: Cosby Offers More Needed Tough Love in New Book," Dec. 6, 2007) Dr. Cosby & Dr. Poussaint are right on target. We have to get real with our kids, our community and, most importantly, ourselves. We have to get back to good old-fashioned parenting. I am not a proponent of corporal punishment. But, it does appear that if parents do not beat (beat meaning to force knowledge and plain old common sense) their Black kids, the police surely will (I mean physical beating when referring to the police). We have tried the parenting methods of other cultures and they do not work with our children. Our children are kids. They are not little adults. They should not call adults by their first name. They should not have the option of always expressing themselves whenever they feel like it. There is a time and place for everything. It's time to become effective parents again. If we don't fill our roles, we are going to have problems for generations to come.