Title : “Good
parents make good children, bad parents make bad children." What is your opinion about the statement above?
When kids act out, it always the parents who get the blame. Why is it like that? Should the parents are the one who must be blamed if their children have bad behaviour and play truently? In our point of view, there are a lot of other factors that can influence children behaviour. We should not blame the parents only as they always try their best in educating their children since the children were born.
Primary factor that contribute to children
behaviour is mass media. As we all know, mass media has become important medium
for transferring and receiving information. For instance, television, internet,
radio and newspaper. Children will surely be affected by this medium if these
important mediums not be taken care. Most of children today tend to spend their
time in front of the computer for playing games and surfing internet. How about
when the children were surfing internet, suddenly pornography picture pop out.
We should know that children are not expert in differentiating between bad and
good. Moreover, it is outrageous when we found out that FINAS ( National Film
Development Corporation Malaysia) does not filter their film anymore. Let us
think about it together. This is bad! Children will be badly affected by mass
media. There are many films that can encourage children
to involve in bad things such as rempit.For example, Evolusi KL Drift film
maybe was created to give good impact to Malaysia citizen. Unfortunately, our
beloved children tend to follow the action rather than taking moral of the
story. In conclusion, mass media should be filtered in order to make children
influenced by good thing.
Besides, peer influenced also contribute to
the children’s attitude. It is because children spend almost of their time with
their friends. As we all realize, they spent almost 6 to 7 hours in the school
per day and they go to school 5 days a week. Sometimes they have discussion or
hang out together with their friends. From this aspect, did you realize that
children spend a lot of their time with their friends instead with their
parents at home? It can’t be denied that friend gives a very great impact to
children’s behaviour. Behaviour of the children depends on their friends. A
good friend can guide to the truth path while if children befriend with a bad
person, indirectly children are influenced by their friend’s action. For example, let us think, if one group of
teenagers do bad thing such as smoking, children will easily get influenced by their friends. As we all
realize, children or teenagers have high inquiries. Because of these high inquiries, they will try to smoke without
thinking any side effects. So, should we blame the parents if their children
have bad behaviour while friends are one of the main factors which contribute
in behaviour of children?
Other than that, parents should not be
blamed for the children behaviour because environment could be one of external
factors that influence them. For instance, as we all know there are a lot of
cybercafé in Malaysia. These emergence,
will affect children behaviour since most of children love to play games. They
dare to go to cybercafé even during school sessions just to play games. This
will lead to absenteeism and truancy among school children. Besides, we often
heard a lot of social issues and crime issues whether in newspaper, radio or
televisions. This shows there are a lot
of immoral people outside children’s home. Is it this environment that all of
us want to educate our children? Should the parents be blamed for children’s
behaviour if the environment become
worse and worst? Life of children is the most challenges. They easily get
influenced by their environment because they don’t have a lot of knowledge. So,
as responsible citizens, we should guide the children to the
right path. We have to show the good examples since they will become the leader of our
beloved country one day. Remember, if you want to see our country in our
future, look at our children today. Stop to put on blame on parents if the
children is bad, but let all of us take good care of the environment for the sake of our future. Parents have tried
their best to educate their children and now, it is our turn to play role to
keep the environment in harmony.
In a nutshell, we absolutely disagree that good parents make good children, bad parents make bad children as there are many factors that influence them. Instead of the parents, mass media and peer influence also play important role in contributing the children's attitude. Although there are a lot of other factors that influenced them, parents have to play their role in educating their children. We understand that parents have a lot of responsibilities, but they cannot neglect their children. Come on parents! Try your best! ' Better die trying rather than give up '
