Bill Cosby was always one of my favorites when I was growing up in Chi-town. He's funny, but hits the nail right on the head when he speaks the facts. He's not being funny when he talks about parents getting involved in the lives of their kids, but he's dead-on right, babe. Too many joes and jills nowadays are more concerned with who gets thrown off the island then they are about how their kids are doing in school. Crying shame; that's what it is.

I've worked with enough hard-luck kids to know that involved parents make all the difference in the world. The more time you spend with the young ones, the less time and desire they'll have to get mixed up in dangerous things like running with the wrong crowd or getting themselves in debt. Don't give me or Dave Ramsey any bunk about how "my kid would never do that." They won't do it, if you teach them right from wrong. Do it, jack.