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Young people crying out for leadership – Eileene L. Parsons

Young people are crying out for leadership, according to former legislator Mrs Eileene L. Parsons, OBE. Photo: VINO
“I believe that kids today, they don’t have that kind of bond with their parents,” Mrs Parsons stated. Photo; VINO/File
“I believe that kids today, they don’t have that kind of bond with their parents,” Mrs Parsons stated. Photo; VINO/File
MANCHESTER ESTATE, Tortola, VI – Former legislator Mrs Eileene L. Parsons OBE, has suggested that young persons in the Territory are facing a crisis of leadership and this may offer insight into glaring variation in behavioural patterns that exist today.

“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.”

20 Responses to “Young people crying out for leadership – Eileene L. Parsons”

  • egg face (20/06/2013, 08:25) Like (10) Dislike (7) Reply
    Well saw but this is an inditement of her own NDP Minister of Youths Myron...means that he is not providing the leadership...What ah thing to tell the KING!
    • Mr. T (20/06/2013, 09:31) Like (11) Dislike (16) Reply
      It must be said that you still have a little egg white and yoke covering your eyes because your vision is obviously impaired. I do not know what thrill we get from likening what is being said or done to many of the actions of the National Democratic Party. It strikes me that we look to our members of government for leadership and we are skipping over our fathers who some regrettably are in prison, are absent from the home, who care not because they were court ordered to pay child support. Why do we first look at government leaders when many of our churches are still within their walls of worship, when our communities do not raise the children in the community anymore, when our adults smoke around and sell drugs to the very same individuals who look up to them and when our mothers have to work 2 and 3 jobs to make it. I end here.... We must realize that we the people (majority of us) are contributors to the problem by being bystanders and not proactive members of society by bringing and being the change that we want to see. The question is to you "egg face", are you providing the positive leadership that is needed towards the people that are around you?
    • mmm (20/06/2013, 11:55) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      ME AGREE WITH Ms. Parsons
    • @egg face (20/06/2013, 14:05) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      NDP raise your "bad egg"?????????? hush your mouth and raise your old child
  • please (20/06/2013, 08:41) Like (1) Dislike (34) Reply
    Tell this woman go sit down. When she had her chance to help the young people all she did was invest in the horse track.
    • yellow (20/06/2013, 10:35) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
      Eileen L. Parson i will always love you you are such a nice person and god will see you through

  • rewrsdffds (20/06/2013, 08:42) Like (6) Dislike (37) Reply

    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.

    • @ ok (20/06/2013, 10:32) Like (9) Dislike (0) Reply
      Some of the foolish bloggers need to stop trying to tarnish Ms. P name…she is a giant of a lady and has help to build the BVI in more ways than one. She has her place in our history long time!
  • hypocrite (20/06/2013, 08:44) Like (0) Dislike (34) Reply

    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.

  • VIlander (20/06/2013, 11:53) Like (4) Dislike (0) Reply
    I agree the prior generation & subsequent generations that followed their lead, had not ime for children thinking that tv & $$$ would rais ethem on their own. The young are desperate for leadership though not of a political nature. Basic community leadership & rolemodels are missing. The boys have no idea how to be men & the girls have no desire to be ladies. Which means we'll be a country of manimals by the next generation.
  • ova & out!!! (20/06/2013, 15:00) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    come again
  • farmer brown (20/06/2013, 15:37) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    i hope some body writes a book about the life of Ms. Parsons
    • ahhhhhh (20/06/2013, 18:36) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
      I agree we also need a bust of her somewhere more noticeable than the college as our tourist does not visit there!
  • wise up (20/06/2013, 22:27) Like (4) Dislike (0) Reply
    It is very difficult as a citizen of the BVI to look around and see other progressing; it is so funny how government offer the rich foreign investor freedom from taxes and import duties while the poor Vi Lander is not given any incentives;;;; if one sit and take a good look at what government earns from foreign investment verses what the actual investor earns per annum it’s a joke; another example, government invest millions each year in tourism BUT the owners of these private villas and private yachts are the ones reaping the actual rewards for the millions OUR Government spends on advertising OUR country…..if one take a long hard look at the non bv islander in this territory that are NOT gainfully employed and the non bv islander holding work permits yet doing 2 & 3 different jobs(paying NO taxes) AND nothing is done about it

  • Muddy waters (21/06/2013, 16:33) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Egg face learn to spell, the word is indictment


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