Supporting Hard Choices - Choosing to be Accountable

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"Civil Liberty consists not in a right to every man to do just as he pleases, but it consists in an equal right to all citizens to have, enjoy and do, in peace, security, and without molestation, whatever the equal and constitutional laws of the country admit to be consistent with the public good."
(John Jay)

Accountability

Lack of accountability for our own actions is a growing issue in our society. It is increasingly difficult to teach our children that they must make choices, and that the time for choosing consequences is BEFORE you make the choice, not after!

Parents who teach accountability, and people who choose to be accountable for their own actions, are worth admiring. Even when the choice that got them where they are was not the wisest, they deserve recognition for being willing to make it right.

Teaching accountability involves allowing someone to face the results of their own actions. If you bail them out, they won't understand that it was their consequence. The world is too willing to allow excuses. Recent lawsuits have frequently involved attempts to blame someone else for the choices of an individual.

It can be very hard to watch someone else make horrendous choices. And when the consequences begin to rain down on them, our sympathy may compel us to try to ease the way in a manner that is not helpful to the other person. It IS possible to comfort and sympathize without removing accountability.

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MegaFamilies - Large family support site.
Leah After Judah - Secondary Infertility
LoveIs Archive - Celebrating Simple and Extraordinary Acts of Kindness.
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