Modern Days

Have you ever asked yourselves why children nowadays so spoiled? Why have they become rebellious and turn out to be hoodlums? There are many causes to these problems ; lack of love, etc.

In a place like Singapore, where both father and mother have to work day to night to maintain an acceptable lifestyle, it is extremely difficult to bring up their kids themselves or the proper way.

When kids become teenagers, they get easy access to the TV and internet. Without parental guidance and control, things would naturally become bad. Parents are relying a great deal on teachers to look after their children and often, this arrangement is inadequate because of the high enrollment in each school class. Teachers cannot only focus mainly on one student but must also focus on the rest too.

Hence, in order to make children happy and satisfied, parents tend to give children extra pocket money, thinking that they are showing them love by this action and would feel less guilty for not spending time with them.

Without parental guidance and control, these teenagers would most probably go astray due to the influence of the outside world. Without love from their parents, they would seek it from other places. Hence, they would mix with the wrong group of people, using the extra money to do bad things.

So, is giving extra pocket money to the children effective in showing care and concern to them? I think not. Most children take it for granted and do not appreciate it. I feel that parents should set aside some time for their children, no matter how busy they are. This is for the children' sake as he or she would grow in a better environment under parental guidance.

Nowadays, parents being unable to spend time with their children is already a very major problem in the world. Thus, do you think that they would have the time to look after their own aged parents?

Some employ maids to take care of their aged parents and only visit them once a week. Don't these elderly people deserve more respect and concern after taking care and grooming them for what they have became? Is is really enough to drop in once a week for a few hours on the way just to say hi? Even if we really really don't have the time, we should also really mean it when we visit them.

Nowadays, when some children visit their grandparents, in their hearts, they do not want to visit them but were forced to. To others, it had become a routine to visit their grandparents every week and they don't even mean it.

Worst still, some people who are not as well off and cannot afford to hire maids, would dump their elderly parents in a Day Care Center or Old Folks' Home. These heartless people do not even think of the feelings of them.

In conclusion, I really feel that we should always place some things above others. Which is more important? 1 day of work , or your parents? No matter how busy we are, we should always take the time to take care for those who had loved and cared for us when we were young.