“Fluoride in our water and foods.”
Craig Thoburn,
Wheeling
“The food parents find acceptable to feed them.”
Spencer Conner,
Wheeling
“Finding their future in a time of uncertainty and their place in society.”
Alexander Coogan,
president of Monoceros Properties, Wheeling
“The threat of smoking, drugs and alcohol”
Amanda DeVore,
deli clerk,
Weirton
“Opportunities to be themselves — let them play and be happy.”
Marjorie Klemm
tax class instructor,
H&R Block, Wheeling
“Parents and their children should be more active in the church.”
Bridget Lucas,
Realtor,
Wheeling
“The lack of hands-on experiences in and out of school available to children.”
Patricia Croft
director,
Children’s Museum of the Ohio Valley,
Wheeling
“Kids don’t get the opportunity to be themselves; the adults want them to be something they’re not.”
Sarah Frank
student, Wheeling Park High School
“I think with the ever-growing technological world, the youth of today will simply keep getting lazier. You can already order a pizza with two mouse clicks; you might sooner than later be able to talk to your iPhone and a pizza will appear.”
Evan Oslund,
actor/director, Bethany
“Single parenting and a poor education system controlled by big unions. It doesn’t take a village to raise a child, it takes two sober parents.”
Roger Malone,
business operator,
Wheeling
“It’s probably boredom and the lack of opportunity to be social because of technology.”
Kathleen Frank,
educator, Challenger Learning Center, Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling
“The biggest problem facing children is the media’s negative influence on children in pushing sex and drugs at them.”
Perry Napier,
home remodeling specialist, Wheeling
