(Picture from cartoonStock)
I find this picture very relevant to today kids. Well, not all are like that. There are a handful who appreciate having anything they can find on the table or in the fridge, as long as it fill their stomach.
A scary growing numbers of today youth are so spoilt at home, they carry this behaviour with them everywhere they go. With parents bowing to every demand at home, such youth thinks they do not have to follow the same rules outside.
They don't want to take responsibility in what they do, messy, disrespectful and often scolded their domestic helper, make a lot of noise in public, rude and ill-mannered, laugh loudly at people in distressed and never offer to help, etc.. (too many to name all, add if u can)
I was asking my friend the other day. "What if your child behave this way?" I said.
She told me, " this is acceptable as long as they don't do drugs or kill anyone."
Right.... That's the problem.
Kids could no longer distinguished what is right and wrong and will become or do things self-centeredly.
3 comments:
I agree with your posting with regards to the spoilt kids today. I believe the laissez faire attitude that parents take towards their kids transcends into their work life as well. As many of these kids grow up, they adopt the same choosy and picky attitude towards work, i.e. refusing to take on jobs that require some amount of hardship. Instead, many believe in the exhorbitant life of having a maid pick up after them and this shows at work because many would feel anger if asked to do the dirty work; they look at themselves as the elite. Even after they enter the work force, many of the kids still expect the same luxuries.
Sad as it is, 2 issues are raised after. When things go bad, many of these kids look towards external sources to blame; when things go well, they take all the credit.
Kids today lack the discipline that has been the cornerstone of what building this and other societies has been about. Also, parents need to take a more proactive stance in providing the guidance instead of taking a "hands off" attitude because they are too busy.
exactly. just a few days ago i saw something that disturbed me quite a bit. i was at a void deck waiting for someone when i noticed a maid standing by the road. shortly after a school bus stopped and a boy, about p5 or p6 alighted and the first thing he did was to chuck his bag to the maid. that got me thinking. did the maid make her way down just to fetch his oh-so-heavy bag for a few steps? what's going to happen when he goes to the army? can't help but shudder at the thought of that....
p5-p6 asking maid to carry the bags!!?? so sad, thinking about it. If he go to the army next time, as well bring the maid or have the maid to carry him.
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