Discipline

[Lindsey]

I have no kids myself, but I remember growing up and seeing my cousins running around doing what they wanted, and I was jealous. Now, one of them had to go to a juvenile detention center when he was 14, his younger brother got taken away from the family because of the dysfunction, and the oldest, a girl my age, was on drugs at an early age and now has 2 children she is raising by herself. She and I are closer now and she has cleaned up completely, but I see her raising her children the same way she was raised. Sometimes her two year old daughter is still awake at 1 or 2 in the morning! She is trying, but she hasn't had any good examples in her life on how to raise children.