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

Raising Citizens How Your Home Shapes the Future of Your Community!

12 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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Richard R. Ramos argues that parents shape future citizens at home through everyday moments like dinner and bedtime routines. A peaceful household that teaches respect and cooperation directly supports schools and police, counteracting negative neighborhood influences.

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We are raising citizens of the community, and your neighbors and your school teachers and the policemen and the community is depending on you, Mom and Dad, to raise somebody who knows how to respect authority, who knows how to get along, who knows how to have social values, who knows how to pay attention, who, who knows how to treat other people with respect, And where do they learn that? They should be learning it at your dinner table, at night when they go to bed. What goes on in your home on a daily basis, the culture that you're building, the nest, the refuge that they come home to— is it a refuge where they can feel at peace and safe from all the garbage and all the junk and all the temptations and all the maybe threats that are out in the community, out in the barrio, out in the neighborhood.