the youth of today

Philippines
November 23, 2009 7:58pm CST
is it really true that the youth today are quite different from the youth of yesterdays in terms of values and outlook in life? or did we (parents) just lack the right teaching of those values to our children? to my reflection, somehow parents has something to do in educating these values. remember everything starts at home? cycle as may seem - parents working too hard to make both ends meet, leaving children at home taken care by caregivers, left watching tv, provided with material things to compensate the love and affections missing while the parents are away working and so on. to lessen the guilt, parents resorted to materials things than physically and emotionally present for their children as a result, no one to correct these children, to attune their perspective about love, values, priorities. children in turn develop their own coping mechanism to keep pace with life. as a result? lessening of values and increase commercialism, thinking that materials things can compensate what is missing. so parents, let us always go back to ourselves and ask what is happening, where have we failed? what will i do to enrich my relationship with my children to make sure they treasure what i used to treasure.
2 responses
blessing2u
@blessing2u (496)
• Philippines
24 Nov 09
Yes, the youth of today may be different in terms of values and outlook in life, but these youths of today can be taught the right values and outlook in life. The movies, televisions and the media are contributory factor in why our society is moving down instead of going up in terms of value formation. I hope that we can start with ourselves and show the youth the right paths of life. As my friend says, putting God first is a good start.
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alexysabelle
@alexysabelle (905)
• Philippines
6 Feb 10
i believe you blessing... though the youth today may be different, i know they can still be thought good values but then again it really requires the guidance of a responsible adult to so that. what makes it quite complicated is that adults are occupied with so mush concerns in the world that they sometimes forget that the youths at home are there waiting in the corner to be nurtured and guided. because of these conflicting scenarios, life later between the youth and the adult at home becomes complicated. until it will reach to a point where they cannot understand each other anymore. thus become a dysfunctional family. before that happens, let us be sensitive to the needs of our youth today.. see you around and God Bless!
hisoka147
@hisoka147 (606)
• Philippines
24 Nov 09
Yes today's youth are now quite different. I'm sorry to say that they are more terrible than us compared a long time ago. They seem to be influenced by the modern aspect of entertainment such as the movies, games and everything that portraits something cool. I guess the only way to enrich relationship with your own children is to spend more time with them and try to keep repeating about the right thing to do.
alexysabelle
@alexysabelle (905)
• Philippines
6 Feb 10
you know i realized, that no matter how different the time today, if parents are sensitive to the developmental needs of our children and then constantly imbibing the lessons learned from the past and how it makes the youth before, their values, their behavior, then maybe our youth can be better off than before. what do you think? thanks hisoka... take care..