Tom Facchine – I Caught My Son With A Bag of Weed

Tom Facchine
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The speaker discusses the importance of parenting and communicating with children in order to prevent their children from going to school. They stress the need to wake up parents to act like everybody else and not to try to convince children to go to school. The speaker also criticizes the way parents are portraying their children and the way they act.

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			Most people intervene when it's too late, right? Maybe they caught their daughter out with a boy,
maybe they, you know, their son, they caught them with a bag of weed or something like that. And
then they come to me, they come to the email, you know, and I, it's hard to fix a 16 year old or a
17 year old or an 18 year old, really what had happened was the started way back when they were six
or seven, you know, 10 years ago. And so if you're behind on the tarbiyah, you're behind on the
upbringing. You know, this is just the straw that broke the camel's back. This is just the very,
very sort of tip of the iceberg. So we need to very, we need to be careful, we need to wake up. I
		
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			mean, we communicate things to our kids. And the biggest thing that we have as an influence over our
kids is our own example, first of all, and then second of all, the priorities that we communicate to
them. It's ridiculous that and most masajid across the country, kids aren't there for Juma, right,
they're in school. What do you tell them? Your kids? What are you showing your kids? It's your
constitutional right to take your kid out of school, if you have the ability to provide
transportation and pick them up. Okay, if both parents work and you can't do it, maybe that's
something else. But if you have the logistical means to take your kids out of school, it's your
		
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			constitutional right, who do you have to blame but yourself? There's the man working his butt off
trying to come up with relevant topics for the youth and stuff like that, and your youth isn't
getting them because you think it's more important to be in gym class or science lab. Right? You're
you're the one that's setting the priorities for your kids need prayers. The same goes for prayer at
the schools the same, it's your constitutional right for your kid to pray in school. Have you talked
to the principal? Have you talked to the school board? Have you talked to the superintendent? are
you advocating for your kid and then you want to complain when they're 16 and 17? They don't respect
		
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			the deen. They don't live the deen. They don't make decisions based off of what Islam says or what
Allah likes. Why would they? You've taught them to act like everybody else. And all they're doing is
acting like everybody else.