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Thursday, September 17, 2015
A mother's love and the abolishment of breeding farms
What it s a breeding farm and how does it affect a mother's love? In the words of Dr Umar Johnson, during the days of slavery women were placed in a home with the biggest, strongest, most athletic male (a stud if you will) and his job was to keep the women pregnant in order to breed more slaves. Nowadays a breeding farm is what he calls many homes that are breeding individuals for the prison system. Some of our homes are not homes, they are simply houses where are children are being raised only to end up as statistics of the criminal justice system. The reasons why this is relevant to a mother's love is because in most homes the women whether they are single parents, shacking up, or married are responsible for majority of the day to day child rearing. Our love runs deep enough that we can correct the behaviors that make our houses breeding farms and change them to homes.
There are a few things addressed in Dr Umar's speeches that can help you identify your household as either a breeding farm or a home. Bookshelves, let me go further by saying bookshelves with actual books, not being used solely as decorations. What is the ratio of televisions in your home to learning materials? Do you have dictionaries, thesauruses, and encyclopedias? Without these items the learning is left up to the school system alone, which is most cases are poorly educating the children and not sufficiently preparing them for society.
Another aspect is addressing the type of parenting style we have. There are three Passive, Aggressive, and Balanced. A passive parent provides little to no discipline, is determined to fulfill their child's every want and desire making sure to give them everything that 'you' didn't have. A spoiled child is an entitled unsuccessful adult. The world we live in is unforgiving and you are entitled to NOTHING. Next is the aggressive parent which normally is the man (can still be a women), which is unfortunately missing from many households, but why proper co-parenting is still very much needed. Swallow your pride and anger and realize that it's about the child and mother's love recognizes when a father is trying to participate in raising a child, but that's another subject for another day. An aggressive parent is strict sets rules and guidelines and has high expectations but tends to give more discipline than love. The child of an aggressive parent is usually extremely successful, works hard and has drive. However they are also closet addicts, not just to drugs, but gambling, shopping, thrill seekers, etc They need a release because they spend so much time trying to be successful. The last style is a balanced parent. This of course is the best of both worlds gives enough love and discipline to create a well rounded successful member of society. I'm going to add to Dr Umar's teachings by saying many people aren't balanced parents or at least not as balanced as they'd like to think they are, myself included. Some of use are passive until are cup runneth over with issues then we want to be aggressive. Some parents are completely absent, which means they are not providing much else but a roof, a friend, and material possessions. Other parents especially single parents have admitted being aggressive due to the stress of raising children alone, you're tired, worried about income, chauffeuring children around with no help, etc So we're snapping on our kids for 'being kids'. Having two active parents increases the chances that our children will grow up under a balanced parented environment. My household for instance may not be a breeding farm but I am more of a passive parent while my fiance' is more of an aggressive parent. Together we present a united force when raising our boys therefore providing balance that would not otherwise be there if either one of us were do to this alone.
As a mother, a nurturer, provider, comforter ect. It is our job to take into account our shortcomings and strong points to use those to raise our children in the best environment that we can provide. Not everyone has a 'father figure' around for their children, well lets look at our parenting styles, the products in our homes, and are relationships with our children to make sure that we are not breeding farms and our homes are not acting as incubators for the prison system. Most of us have heard the saying "Mama's baby Daddy's maybe". Yes men are stepping up and taking custody of their children, staying home now with their children while the wife works, being more active in child rearing than earlier times. However child rearing is still done majority of the time by women and now statistically speaking by women alone. So more than ever we need the love of mothers in order to abolish breeding farms. We need the love of mothers to make smart decisions when choosing fathers of their children, boyfriends, men allowed around your children, and to make better life decisions. We need the love of mother's to fight for careers, better education and training to provide for your children with or without support, that includes child support and government support. A mother's love is what keeps us on our knees praying for our children. Today I'm calling all Mother's to dig deep down and use that love to abolish the breeding farms and build homes.
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