Friday, March 16, 2007

Monkey see monkey Do


According to how you were raised, is that the way you are going to educate your kids?
I think it’s the opposite because you don’t want to treat your child in the way you were treated by your parents, if you were mistreated. However, if you were spoiled, perhaps you are going to spoil your child because you don’t really know another way to raise your kids.
In terms of kids is difficult because they are like an sponge, outside influences can be noticeable at any moment could be from the day care, school or just the friend who comes home on the weekends. What ever you do, your child does, and this is amazing how we parents act as mirrors for our kids. In the other hand children can be rude because they are very honest, they don’t think if they are hurting others or not because they don’t know how to be hypocrites like most adults do. That is why some people say that children and drunk people say the truth.
However, Culture plays an important role in society, making attachment a dilemma in our families. Unfortunately, some cultures have very strong believes of male chauvinism, and women are in charge of the kids, putting the career goals in a second place. If the woman decides to do something in life, she must find the way to provide her family with the best environment providing food, taking care of the kids and the job. The male role in the family is to provide monetary solvency, but not more than that because the male chauvinism makes them to act like that. But, wait I cannot generalize because we have few men who enjoy helping his wife and making it a secret from his friends.
In the past, the simple fact of look at your parent eyes was disrespectful and sometimes punished paying the consequences of such act. When our moms talked, we had to stayed quiet, also if someone came home, we were not aloud to interfere in any conversation or just be there looking at them. Nowadays, life has been getting easy and unfortunately without manners. If you are having a conversation, kids agreed and gave opinions no matter what the conversation could be. In my case I don’t like to involve my kids into adult’s conversations because some times we discuss topics not audibly by kids. I use to say “Who asked for a public notary?” so, my kids know that they are not aloud into the conversation and when I roll my eyes, they identify that I don’t want them in the room. Also, when I count from one to five, they have to stop the noisy playing or what ever I told them to do must be completed when I reach the five! I love the kids who have manners; unfortunately this has been disappearing during these years. Not even the simple things such as good morning or thank you.
Violence is incrementing at schools because our kids are surrounded by violence in games, movies, television and the streets. This is the biggest problem and concern from the schools district. The metal detectors replaced the beautiful doors with colors we were used to see at the schools entrances, electronic games replaced the books and television replaced those nights having conversations together in family, having a dinner. The new millennium changed those beautiful things we were used to have. Perhaps, the religion is unifying families rescuing those values almost lost in our lives no matter what religion, language and or ethnicity. Human beings ought to believe in an extreme force to subsist in live, there is why religion is important for us.