Anti-social behaviour just doesn’t make life unpleasant. Anti-social behaviour includes a variety of behaviour covering a whole complex of selfish and unacceptable activity that can blight the quality of community life. Such examples seen on the streets of
behaviour.
A recent rise in the number of articles addressing the problems of youth, the very future leaders of tomorrow, is alarming. I refer to the article on the 11th of April speaking of glue-sniffing being the ‘in’thing, comparing itself to inhalant abuse in the 1970s. If this isn’t a social issue, I don’t know what else is. The preference to sniff glue(of all things) to attain an intoxicating state is way beyond my comprehension.
I quote the article “Last year, 442 glue sniffers - or 69 per cent - arrested were below 20 and 64 per cent of them were students, including for polytechnics and ITE.” Having a significant majority of them (in the criminal justice system) under the age of 20 is not something that we would want to be proud of. Who do we have to blame for this sudden shift? - Parents? Peers? The media?
Honestly, I think the solution begins at home. Ultimately, parents have a major role to play. Given today's time and space, parents these days tend spend more time in front of their laptops than they do stare at their own children’s faces. They don’t even have time to address their marital discord, let alone address the onset of anti-social behaviour of their children. They think that emphasizing on their children’s education by engaging them in ridiculous amounts of tuition and supplementary classes would make their child a better person. What they do not realize is that these children feel neglect more than anything else. Parents fail to realize that giving their child everything he/she needs to become the next promising leader/entrepreneur of the country is not enough. What they are providing does NOT entail love, care and proper guidance- the very foundation needed for their kid to even exist as a decent member in society. Permissive parenting is not the way to go, at least not these days where children are more naïve and truly experimental. Allowing children to explore on their own is mainly paving their way to their own graves.
2 comments:
People make mistakes. This is expected from every single person in this world because nobody is perfect. Parents may make the mistake for neglecting their children which leads to the children to do things that are harmful for themselves. To me, what is more important is for the parents to guide their children so they don't make the same or similar mistakes. In some cases, the children are the ones who are being unappreciative and taking advantage of their parent love and care. So how to deal with these spoil brats?
Parents cannot really be blamed totally for their children becoming juvenile delinquents…parents are fighting a war out there to bring back enough money for their family especially for their children so that they will have a comfortable life. All this is carried out by parents in the belief that their children are doing well in school…when their children’s reference group is bad naturally due to normative influence they conform to group’s practices in return for praises n promotions (If in a Gang). The other factor, which can be attributed to such anti-social behavior may be due to physiological reasons…during teenage years many teen’s frontal lobe is not very well developed and they may be immature n the sense that cannot easily process information in the form of advice given to them…... Andre'
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