Society & Culture

Responsibility

Society & Culture

Posted by: vickster

22nd Apr 2012 10:52am

Taking responsibility for your own stuff. Including your children,
Why as a society are we letting children dictate what goes on.
Aren't parents supposed to be doing that. Why are they making excuses for not being responsible themselves and in turn teaching the most valuable thing in their lives, to be responsible as well.
History dictates that societies will always fail because we eventually implode.
Its so sad in this day and age, when we know so much, know what is right and wrong, but cannot even come to grasp with basic stuff. What do you think out there in cyberspace??


Comments 7

Goulah
  • 5th Nov 2012 01:47pm

There are many areas of "ostrich syndrome".

1. I will not get caught for speeding
2. Who cares if I speak on my mobile whilst doing a u-turn
3. Why not drive on the wrong side of the tram
4. Damned parking inspectors
5. They could have stayed open another five minutes
6. It is not my dog
7. The train should have stopped
8. The flood waters are not too deep for my car
9. My son is a good boy/my daughter is a good girl
10.The door closed in my face

Leseelu
  • 3rd Nov 2012 12:23pm

Have any of you people lived with an ADHD child and seen them destroyed not just for not fitting in but being bullied, laughed at and left out of everything. Have you sat with your crying child when they couldnt understand why they were not invited to any birthday parties or out of school celebrations? Have you questioned your own parent teachings and found you always had the right answers. Unless you have walked the walk dont bother talking the talk because there is no way in the world you could ever understand what a true ADHD child experiences through life.

Anonymous
  • 6th Oct 2012 12:46pm

Freedom is good but absolute freedom for kids corrupt them absolutely. How can a child one is training end up training himself or herself. This is what is happening, because we leave kids to determine what is good for them.

The future is looking very blur with sub a system being encouraged.
Innocent kids are being used to achieve a lot of dangerous things by the bad older ones just because society is only only good at writing and talking about all the good things and bad things without practising any of what they write and say.

Good future is prepared, it doesn't just occur.
Children are now doing alot of things on the internet and on their computers at home that no one can kick against. but secretly, those parents that are influencing their kids use of their computers are actually seeing good results in the academics and daily life.

All is not lost yet. but society must wake up now or never !!!!!

livestar
  • 12th Sep 2012 10:17am

Well when I was growing up and I am only 33 years old now if I was naughty I got a smack on the backside I was sometimes stupid enough to be naughty and there was no such thing as ADD or ADHD what so ever because if you were naughty you got a smack if you were good you were rewarded. I am not saying do the same thing as what my mother did like use a belt of a rubber hose but there is nothing wrong with a smack on the backside as long as it is not skin on skin because if you smack your child now you can go to jail.

ADD and ADHD is just a Scientific name for Bad Parenting because you can not discipline your child that is all it is. Let Parents Discipline their own Children Stop shoving medication down the childrens throats because there has been Scientific proof that the Medication that is being used for ADD and ADHD has brought on Mental Health problems later on in your childs life I am seeing it with my Nephew now he was 4 years old when he was put on Medication and now he is 18 and he now has multiple Personalatise so tell Parents what would you prefer to be able to do ?

A: Discipline your child or
B: Have your child have Mental Health Issues.

If Mental Health Issues are not caused by the Medications that are used for ADD or ADHD why are there 2345 cases of Parents taking the Medication Companies to Court to sue them???? Thing again about your Childs Health please...And stop throwing Medication down their throats I know my Sister regretsw giving my Nephew Medication now believe me

Hilary
  • 17th Jul 2012 09:31pm

Parents should teach their children responsibility . Teach them that their actions have consequences and to think about what those might be and how they will affect them and others. Part of being responsible is having some self control, stopping to think for a moment and not just acting on impulse. We need to be clear what our own values are and pass them on to our children. We need to set a good example ourselves including how we act to our children. We can still be in charge and set rules and at the same time show them respect and use good manners towards them.

Blossom
  • 15th Jul 2012 08:36am

The plain truth is, the 10 rules as set out in Exodus chapter 20 in the bible are no longer taught as our society is determined to go it's own way. These 10 recommendations teach responsibility to God & care & consideration for parents, family & others in the community. Our society has failed to take these into account thinking that life without respect for God is the better way & then wonder why society goes into caos & a downward spin to self destruction as history shows over & over in the past.

jules 1
  • 30th Jun 2012 03:41pm

Yes.. how very true.

I think the system today is letting us all down.

There appears to be so much crime today, yet when these people go before a judge, and basiclly for a very major crime, they appear to get a slap on the wrist for what they have done.

So they are not making these people responsible for what they do.!

Which is the same thing happening with the young kids of today, the parents seem to give them what ever they ask for, .. no value of things.

I also think there should be far more disapline at the schools today, it really is a joke what these kids are getting away with.

Bring back the old school way of disapline, ... and we may just see a change in our kids of today.!!!

Help Caféstudy members by responding to their questions, or ask your own in Café Chat, and you will get the chance of earning extra rewards. Caféstudy will match these and donate equally to our two chosen Australian charities.

AMCS
Australian Marine Conservation Society are an independent charity, staffed by a committed group of scientists, educators and passionate advocates who have defended Australia’s oceans for over 50 years.
Reach Out
ReachOut is the most accessed online mental health service for young people and their parents in Australia. Their trusted self-help information, peer-support program and referral tools save lives by helping young people be well and stay well. The information they offer parents makes it easier for them to help their teenagers, too.