Richard R RamosRichard R. Ramos. Founder of Parents on a Mission,Youth on a Mission, and Latino Coalition for Community Leadership

Parents You Are the Most Important Authority in Your Child’s Life!

23 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this motivational segment, Richard R. Ramos urges parents to recognize and embrace their role as the primary authority and influence in their children's lives, surpassing the impact of schools, doctors, or principals. He advises parents to expose their children to community leaders, role models, and mentors, but emphasizes that the parental authority provides essential liberty, guidance, safety, and security. Additionally, he calls on youth organizations to adopt training that opens young minds to diverse perspectives, reinforcing the central message that parents are the number‑one asset in the community for shaping their children's development.

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Other youth organizations should take this training to find different ways to open the mind of different youth. And, and I'll just leave it there. So remember, mom and dad, even though you can, uh, introduce, get your kids around other community leaders, role models, uh, mentors, people like that to influence their life, I want to remind you that you are in the best position to influence your children as an authority figure. You are the number one asset in the community. It is your authority that your children need for you to exercise in their life, to provide them with the liberty and the guidance and the safety and the security that I talked about as the authority figure in their life. And I want to, uh, encourage you in that. It's not the doctor, it's not the school, it's not the principal,