Should a student be better than his/her teacher? Or a son better than his father? I think is it fair to say that most us want a better life for our children, regardless of how rich or poor we are. But if this is so evident, why are our children today worse than they were years ago? Children are killing each other and teen pregnancy is growing.
What are we teaching our children, that is causing such havoc in the world today? Is the recession, causing people to work double and triple jobs, taking away family bonding time in the household? Which can result in the streets or television raising our children. Someone told me that, it’s not how much money you earn; the measure of a man is primarily determined how his family is raised. We get caught up in the hype of fancy cars and big houses that is constantly thrown in our faces through the media. “The American Dream.” On television, is seems so easy to get but the reality is, the celebrities we see worked a great deal to get where they are. But everyone’s American Dream varies. Some just want to have a healthy life style or just be able to have children, or have a complete family (husband, wife, two kids and a dog/cat).
Some of us worry about making so much money, that we are blinded by the immediate needs of our children; which is our love and attention. Shouldn’t we be involved in our children’s life, from homework to the type of person they are attracted to? Shouldn’t we pay more attention to the type of books they read rather than the type of Playstation to buy?
I am not telling anyone how to live their life of how to raise their children, but some of us may not need that second job or overtime this week. Maybe the amount commitment that we give our jobs (in fear of losing it), we should devote that same energy in making sure our children are guided in the right direction.
Overtime comment by Yevgeny Grinberg.
ReplyDeleteYes, the student should be better than a teacher. Every next generation should be more advanced than a previous one. I will allow myself to disagree about the kids are being worse
than a previous generation. I think it all depends on surrounding of the child in question. I will also disagree about kids getting pregnant earlier now than before: it also depends on the culture and what time of the millennium we are discussing right now. For example-in Jewish
community boys are getting maturity (according to the religious believes) at 14 and girls at 13, if am not mistaken. If I am mistaken, than it would not be more than a year difference. In Muslim religion adult men can get married on girls considered under age in our society. Our society does not allow it today but years, I mean centuries ago it was OK to get married at early age. So I would say that kids are getting pregnant early now, without getting married first simply because they live in society that does not allow them to do all dose things that they can do by nature.
About should we be involved with our kids or not: we should. Though as you know, you can’t make people love other people, it comes from the hart. I love my children, but unfortunately some people just don’t have the ability to love. I will stop here.
Last thing to say is about the right direction; according to all I said above – the right direction is different for each culture and even in the same culture for different people, especially in United States, because in US all people are from different culturs.
Yevgeny Grinberg.
I think of course our children needs more attention. They can't stay alone without any supervision. This is a good point to keep our kids bisy from early childhood, check how they spend time to avoid problems in the future.
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