Young people crying out for leadership – Eileene L. Parsons
“I feel right now, that our young people are crying out for leadership,” Parsons stated in an exclusive interview with Virgin Islands News Online recently.
Mrs Parsons was firmly of the belief that children should be allowed to enjoy their childhood and suggested this was not happening in today’s society. “Childhood shouldn't be a time of stress, and to me, I had an exceptional childhood,” she stated.
According to Mrs Parsons, she also studied child psychology and revealed that she was raised by an aunt in St Thomas, USVI, where she went to the movies every weekend while growing up.
“I believe that kids today, they don’t have that kind of bond with their parents,” she stated. Mrs Parsons indicated that parents of yesteryear shared a certain level of warmth with their children and that appears to be absent today.
“To me, this is what [is wrong with] children today… their parents don’t have time for them,” Mrs Parsons stated. She related that even though parents might be occupied by work, time should be made to spend with their offspring.
This is something she ensured happened with her two children while they were being raised in St Thomas, Mrs Parsons asserted. She also noted this was done despite her status as a single parent at the time.
Another element she indicated is missing today is the absence of other adults, who in her time had looked out for the children of their community. “Not only the teachers,” Mrs Parsons said, “but there were people who made you feel [like] you were something, you were somebody special.”
“You had that confidence in yourself and were given that confidence as a child… there was nothing that you couldn’t aspire to,” she added, “and I believe that is what these kids today [need]… it [appears] like the children are lost.”
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20 Responses to “Young people crying out for leadership – Eileene L. Parsons”
She and RT have destroyed more young people over the years than all the other politicians and other evil people put together now she come talking like a saint.
I don't care who get vex but I always found that this woman is a hypo****. She says good things to you in your face & behind your back she k**ls you. That is why the young people suffer over the years under her leadership.