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You can't run away 
from your problems
When your behaviour 
Is your problem

fear of losing 
someone you love
can have your anger
drive them away

How many times 
Must you walk 
down the road of anger
Before you realise

your anger 
Is your problem 
How many times
Must you watch
 
Your child is taking drugs
Before you realise 
Your drug problem
taught them, 

Those drugs were fun
that smile when you got drugs
Taught your child 
Those drugs were fun

You spend night after night
Yelling at your kids 
and wonder 
Why don't they listen

The man sitting on the couch
complaining about kids
"They're animals"
"Look at them throwing spaghetti"

The kid's behaviour
Would have been better
If he sat at the table 
and supervised the kids

Like any behaviour 
Kindness is taught
If a child kicks his ball 
onto the roof 

You can teach hatred 
by telling him 
He'll never get it back
Or teach him you care

by climbing onto the roof
and retrieving the ball
The way you speak
teaches children

How to speak
I sat in the background 
listening to the children play
Gordon raised his voice

"You'll do as I say,
It's my way or the highway" 
Words of his uncle
Repeated by the child


Psychologists want to blame
Either the child 
or the parents
But to me 

The problem is more complex
To me, it's more like percentages
Granted, the child makes decisions
With courage and confidence

They could study and become a doctor
But where does courage and confidence come from? 
Is it nature or nurture
that makes a child's personality

Courage and confidence
builds on success
I remember my son
trying out for the cricket team

Hit the ball for a six
All of his peers gasped and said 
"Look at that"
from there on 

You could not stop him
playing cricket
his confidence 
came from me 

Taking him out to the park
Teaching him to catch a ball 
Teaching him to hit a ball
Experience builds skills

Those trips to the park
taught him the skills to hit that six
Watching my father drunk and violent
taught me to have fear and self-doubt

Half the size of the adults
I felt like a failure 
because I didn't 
Stand up to stop their arguments

When you teach a child
to walk across a wooden beam
You teach them to build confidence
You teach them to have balance

You teach them to overcome their fear
When you teach a child
to respect you 
by getting the ball off the roof

You teach your child to respect adults
confidence and respect build success
Teachers like children who respect them
Success builds on success
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