32. Friendly Persuasion

POWER: Over lives, our children, feels good.
PRESSURE: Force our ideas through our power.
PERSUASION: Coaching, suggestions lead – not push.
PARENTING: Tradition. Do it for me, punish myself, seeing myself in my children, including my mistakes.
POSSESION: Owning. No free will, no true love.
PRIDE: “Make me proud,” regardless o f the price to my children.

The above leads to:

1. A machine, without feelings of their own.
2. Guild in not being a family follower.
3. Spending a lifetime “getting even”
4. Never experiencing true happiness or love.
5. Victimizing your children with your problems caused by the above.

THE CURE:

1. Must change society’s idea of what true love is: Freedom.
2. Society must apologize to its your and mean it.
3. Family must lead, not push.
4. Must not teach tradition as a lifestyle, but as a reference of respect.
5. Must allow one to be one’s self, to develop and grow at one’s own pace, one’s own understanding and coping with life.

A note about Love All People: It is a society – a community – that does exactly what President Reagan said when he signed the $1.7 billion drug law into force. “Society,” he said, “must identify those who use drugs, reach out to them, help them quit, and give them the support they need to live right.”

Love All People does that. We seek out our trouble youth, offering them help through a new lifestyle. We help them quit; then we support their decision to remain drug-free.