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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1997
Page
12
The Gazette invites readers and experts to address how families counteract peer pressure when teaching core values. Topics include time and money limits, media impact, stepparent dynamics, outside authority figures, civility, rebellious teens, single parent challenges, and practical teaching of values at home. Responses appear in Thursday's Gazette.
A parenting guide advising balanced independence and control for teens. It recommends exposing children to values aligned experiences, staying physically and emotionally available, maintaining regular family meetings, setting clear rules with consistent consequences, and encouraging internal control through questions rather than directives. It notes the author as a family life specialist at the Linn County Iowa State Extension Office serving multiple counties.
Stephanie Thompson of Faith Lutheran Church Marion urges parents to model and maintain clear values at home and allow teens to make mistakes. She advises open discussion of conflicts, honest evaluation of influences, and realistic limits balanced with open communication.
Jerry Christensen discusses how teens test family values during adolescence. Peer influence and rule bending shape decisions before high school graduation. Parents must model consistent core values and adapt rules as needed while maintaining faith in youths' future. Christensen has led Cedar Rapids Lutheran Social Services since 1979.
Over nine weeks The Gazette highlights families in Cedar Rapids Springville Iowa City Amana and rural areas as they share how they teach values. Readers follow grandparents single parents widowed households and stepfamilies focusing on daily routines discipline and traditions.
Data describe the make up of Iowa families. 85 percent are married couples with related children. 12 percent are women with related children and 3 percent are men with related children. Family sizes include 45 percent with two members, 21 percent with three, 21 percent with four, 9 percent with five, 3 percent with six and 1 percent with seven or more.
A compact guide lists six core ethics themes including Trustworthiness Respect Responsibility Fairness Caring and Citizenship. It outlines virtues such as honesty loyalty courtesy accountability equity due process and community service with emphasis on nonviolence and open-mindedness.
A Cedar Rapids based survey shows parents shape values more by action than words. Experts note mixed messages in a mobile society, with time pressures and media influence challenging families to teach respect and responsibility.
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