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  Simple things parents can do to prevent 
YOUTH GANG AFFILIATION

 
J Describes in Spanish How Father's Absence Influenced His Gang Involvement   Video by Rob Gallardo

  

    

1. Have an open and loving relationship with your child. Make sure he/she can talk to you about anything  without  your initially getting upset or bothered. It's not just the words, but body language that suggests openness and understanding is also highly important.
2. Understand unequivocably that father's open and sustained involvement in a child's life is critical to his well-being, personal development, self-valuation
3. Set frequently reiterated expectations and clear, unchanging rules for your child.
4. Know your child's friends and their parents
5. Monitor the child's progress in school all the time -- not just at parent night or report card issuance. Be on top of homework, projects, activities
6. Ensure the use of appropriate clothing and accessories for public activities, school and outings
7. Know what your child is watching on TV and Internet and listening to on radio, IPOD, streaming media
8. Observe curfew regulations
9. Know where your child is at all times
10. Teach your child to respect all people and to be polite and circumspect in public
11. Make your home a place where your child is comfortable and wants to be

Providing material things for our children is just the start of being a good parent. Children are not mind readers and they need to be told and showed that they are loved, they are important to you, and that you will always be there for them physically, emotionally and spiritually. Our kids, like us, are  a composite Body, Mind and Soul. All these areas must be tended to well in order for a child to grow up to be productive.

Children are a lot like plants and flowers. To keep the flower alive, attractive and flourishing, the responsible adults in her sphere must provide nurturance, nourishment. These all require time and deliberate effort.

Raising good kids is no accident.

Furthermore, we can't reasonably expect "hit and miss" success. The goal should always be success. Your child is only a child once.



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El Paso Times YouTube Channel video: New Mexico teenager talks to El Paso Respect and Manners seminar about gang life regrets
(EP TIMES Reporter Candi Lopez)



ONG Video regarding youth gang school restroom fights and how they might be gang-related initiation or discipline fights in certain cases





Fatherlessness and Its Effects and Chidren and Families



>How poor parenting creates heartbreak - different parenting patterns can affect a child's future by Thomas Sowell, Detroit News, 5/30/10

Permissive parents present the biggest problems for schools, 2005 essay by El Paso teacher Linda Telles


Is your child a candidate for gang affiliation?: A Profle






ONG video regarding the recent surge in use of hallucinogenc or magic mushrooms by area youth gang members.
Marijuana, tobacco and cocaine have typically been the most commonly used drugs by area Hispanic gang members





Children are not mind readers and they need to be told and showed that they are loved, they are important to you, and that you will always be there for them physically, emotionally and spiritually. Our kids, like us, are a composite Body, Mind and Soul. All these areas must be tended to well in order for a child to grow up to be productive.
"The one most important thing kids need to help them survive in this world is someone who's crazy about them."

Urie Bronfenbrenner, [(1976),  The Ecology of Human Development. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press] as quoted by Hillary Rodham Clinton in "It Takes A Village",  1996, Simon and Schuster.






REFLECTIONS

"My mother and father talked to us about what we owed other people from a humanitarian standpoint.  ... it was a world in which we were, No. 1, to make a contribution, and, if we were judged, we would be judged by what we did for others. And it was a world in which everyone was deserving of our concern and compassion."  Steve Murdock, Demographer



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teachers, social workers, law enforcement, general public
What can parents do to prevent gang involvement?
El Paso gang news
Dona Ana County gang news
Gang-related Tattoos
Gang-related Artwork
Texas parent's rights, Family Code Chapter 51
Gang News Videos
Gangster's Prayer
The Boys of our Town
Gang Graffiti
Gang Placazos
Gang Art
Fatherlessness and Gang Involvement
Signs of Hispanic Youth Gang Involvement
Profile of Youth Gang Recruit
You Can Get Out Of a Gang
Purpose-Driven Covenant - Rick Warren
Attitude - Chuck Swindoll
Internet Gangsters and the MySpace Gangster
Respect is An Attitude
Respect and Manners Classes
Merton Prayer
"I Loved You Enough" - Erma Bombeck
Carta a Mis Hijos - Deseos de Una Madre
"I Cannot Live My Life For You" - A Mother's Thoughts
Permissive parents are a school's main problem




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