First let me apologize for seeming to ingnore my blog the past couple of weeks. You will see below where I have been, and what I have been doing. It was a wonderful experience and my challenge was accepted by the pediatricians. Let’s hope and pray it does some good.
There was an article in the Tennessean this morning saying that 46% of the crimes against people in Nashville last year were domestic assault! They said 100 experts spent 10,000 hours working on solutions to the problem. All of course were not solutions at all, but ways to deal with the offender and the victim. The solution is to teach kids, boys especially, to respect other people and their property. How can we expect boys to become men who respect women when they have no fathers around to model? Or, the men they see are beating, raping, and in other ways abusing their mothers? Our emphasis needs to be on giveing our sons and daughters moral compasses to help them find their way within the law! Teaching and living the Ten Comandments would be a good start. Restoring prayer in the home and the schools is another. Let’s stop being poitically correct and start helping kids live the life we and they want to live.
See the news release below and send me a message about how we can get this done!
For immediate release
Sept. 26, 2013
Charleston, South Carolina
Dr. Parnell Donahue, pediatrician from Brentwood, Tennessee spoke today at the 45th annual meeting of the Irish and American Pediatric Society in Charleston, South Carolina. Donahue challenged pediatricians to spend more time teaching parents the essentials of parenting.
“We are failing our families and their children,” he said. “Every day last year 208 children were arrested for violent crimes, 467 children for drug crimes, 914 babies were born to teen mothers, and 1,825 children were abused or neglected. That’s evidence that we pediatricians have failed?”
He explained that pediatricians were only a small part of the problem but can, and must, be a large part of the solution.
He pointed to social media, violent video games, and obscene movies filled with violence and sexual conduct as part of the problem. He called attention to the low level of church attendance as evidenced by closed churches and empty cathedrals.
“Society has taught our parents that kids do not need restraint or boundaries. Parents learn that anything goes as long as it contributes to their child’s ‘self-esteem!’ Consequently we see loss of respect for others as well as for their property. No wonder we see so much murder, rape, and other crimes.”
He discussed some parenting tools which every family has or could have that will help thwart this explosion of delinquency. He described dinner together, the “Off” button, and organized religion as just some of the implements parents can use to instill a moral compass in their children. “Not many parents consider peers, chores, or work as parenting helpers.” But Donahue says, “They are some of the everyday things which help kids grow into the adults we hope them to be.”
Dr. Par then introduced his new parenting book, Tools for Effective Parenting which, he said, contained the tools needed for good parenting.
Dr. Donahue practiced pediatrics, adolescent medicine and adolescent sports medicine in Hartford and Milwaukee, Wisconsin and in Atlanta Georgia. Today he practices at the Nashville MEPS (Military Entrance Processing Station).
Donahue is author of two parenting books, Messengers in Denim, available on Amazon and local book stores; and Tools for Effective Parenting, which will be released in November. Both books are available on Donahue’s website: https://parentingwithdrpar.com/.
He and his wife Mary, raised four children; three of them are on the faculty at Vanderbilt School of Medicine and the fourth is a faculty member at University of Dayton in Ohio.
Dr. Parnell Donahue is available for interview: 615-604-0963.