I completely agree with the above statements. I have lots of kids in my neighborhood that run around with no supervision and will never learn the respect for animals or anything else for that matter. They will become negligent teens and then sloppy adults themselves.

Then there are the kids who do have parents who teach them things, who keep an eye on what they do, even little things like letting the kids help wash the car will teach them respect for things. These are the kids that will be responsible enough to help care for pets and do things on their own.

We just need to make sure that our own kids learn that they need to respect animals, friends, cars in the road, etc. Stop putting the kid in front of the tv to gossip on the phone all day and teach them something useful.

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