Lessons From Our Mothers

DEREK WU
Staff Writer

As children grow into adolescents, they begin to experience the sweet taste of freedom. However, does growing into adulthood mean that we also forget those lessons and ethics from our parents or any adult figures which shape us into admirable people?

As we move further along in life, those lessons are forgotten or ignored and participating in hit-and-runs, gun threats and drug use become more and more attractive. Many try to help these troubled teens through therapy sessions, but is there an easier way to prevent these incidents? Simply remembering the lessons from our mothers could make life easier and society more humane.

Dazie Williams, a mother who recently lost her son in Houston to a shooting over a pair of Nike’s, spoke to several troubled teenagers in an organization led by Reggie Gordon. Along with Williams, several other mothers talked about how crime has affected their lives, hoping that this would inspire people to be better. Williams later created an organization, Life Over Fashion, to lesson the violence in her city.

Our pasts could have a huge impact on someone else’s future. Family is the greatest thing we are blessed with, and the lessons we learn from our parents are the foundations of our beliefs. Lessons like “Be an honest person, and never lie” are what my mother taught me as a child. As we grow up observing our peers straying towards the wrong paths in life, it seems as if we’ve forgotten these lessons. If mothers were to talk to these “criminals,” they may end up changing their lives for the better.

A mother’s lessons to her child is essential to becoming an ethical person. We all need to remember those simple life lessons that we learned from our mothers to become good people.