Raising Children Today Is a Job

About the Book

This story is about the young men and women today and how they are being trapped in their own little cage by not doing the right things in life. When we people have children, we have an obligation to teach, discipline, love them, and let them know not to engage in what amuses people but to let them know that what they do in life will reflect on their lives in the future. Raising children is a job, and we are failing our job by not listening to what is expected of us—that is, to give our children more than we have. They can’t get it without education, respect, discipline, and a lot of love and understanding of what they have to face. Let’s stop having babies at a young age and start planning for our young men and women’s future. We also need to put our priority in place first and leave man-made things alone (hatred, greed, drugs, killing, stealing, sex before you have a husband or wife, etc.).

About the Author

I was born in the Washington, DC, area and raised by Shirley T. Napper and William T. Napper (deceased). I went to school in the District of Columbia. After school, I worked at Capitol Hill Hospital for two years. Then in 1982, I went to work for the US Postal Service until 2011. I had one child (Patrice Napper) when I married Luther Solomon Sr. in 1984 but had five more children (Yolanda, Luther Jr., Daniel, Nathaniel, and Amanda Solomon) with my husband. My husband passed away in 1999, and I raised my children to the best of my ability. I’m now in a relationship with my first baby’s father (Frederick Golatt).