Mom had not encultured her kids into her own culture. Instead she was trying to adapt to the children’s culture, the culture of disrespect, which they had learned from their peers. And while these kids might have been enjoying themselves at the moment, after a fashion, eating the doughnuts and texting, their parents’ failure to enculture and instruct them rightly means that these kids will be ill-equipped to withstand the challenges of later adolescence and adulthood.
