Misbehavior is not intended by a baby to create
trouble. It’s done when a baby searches for one’s surroundings, own
abilities, existence, and relations with others and things around oneself. Parents
should realize this and not put punishment as choice of teaching one’s baby. Many
times babies aren’t aware of their wrongdoings. As result, they should
learn from mistakes and their parents explaining. However, parents shall never
raise their voice to their baby nor do physical abuse. Punishment also results
in discouragement to a baby. When babies become children, some things children
do are meant to get attention from parents. In these situations, if parents can
recognize it as attention-getting, ignoring the child is the way to go. Otherwise
the child will continue these acts.
When babies look for a sense of control, they
experiment. This is important and acceptable as one learns what rights one has
within boundaries of parents and society. From there, one learns limits of leadership
(by one’s parents) what should be done and avoided in the future as being part of the family. Babies however shouldn’t be given praise or punishment during experimenting until parents learn what
their baby often wants, doesn’t want, likes, and dislikes. Afterwards parents
will know what and how (rewards) to teach good from bad to their baby.
We all want newborns to become well-behaved people
towards adulthood. How do we keep them well-behaved? Avoid them from seeing, hearing, and reading the bad in society today.
However, today’s society is a long ways off from accomplishing that goal.
With how gigantic the population is today, how are we going to control all the parents existing from doing the wrong
they learned as a child to their children? Every time a parent does something
one’s child doesn’t like, that child has just learned a bad habit. It’s
a sad and disturbing cycle from one family generation to the next. Future parents
are going to need to learn stricter policies in caring for their child if they want to keep custody. The ultimate thing parents will have to avoid to raise a child is abuse in verbal, physical, and entertainment
manners.
In verbal manners, parents must be as mute as
possible upon noticing their child doing something wrong. This includes never
raising their voice and swearing. In physical manners, parents mustn’t
abuse in any way unless it involves taking something out of the child’s possession.
Even then minimal harm to the child is necessary unless one is attempting to run away.
In that situation parents may have to chase to stop the child to keep custody.
Instead of these verbal and physical manners, parents can create punishments of future events. These may include not visiting one’s friend, no games, Internet use, playing outside, or treats. Parents may want instead say to do chores, and then reward for doing it.
On the other hand, there are other ways children
learn bad, dangerous habits. These habits come from the outside world, away from
a child’s parents. These are things parents need to be aware of and avoid
their child from learning. Such things are the majority of how humans become
violent to society. Children learn these acts from what they watch on TV, (shows,
commercials, news, etc.) hear on radio, the Internet, items seen in stores, such as video games, toy action figures, movie
videos, newspapers and magazines, and graphic and readable material put on clothing.
These send the wrong message to children on what is and isn’t legal in society.
These are many of what needs to be eliminated from the eyes and ears of children to avoid fear and/or aggression of
negativity in them.
Censorship has changed in TV, allowing more of
what children shouldn’t learn such as violence and sex. Nationwide networks
are at fault for such programming, not the local affiliates. Though it shows
today’s reality, eliminating it on the media is the starting point to ending it in real life. News from local and national stations and reading articles (newspapers, magazines, etc.) have also spoke
out negative events.
Most of us don’t want to hear about bad
news, so if we weren’t to tell others of it, it wouldn’t need to be a problem to others whom aren’t involved
in it. We shouldn’t spread bad news regarding ourselves to anyone not involved. Otherwise we may be giving bad ideas of actions for others to do, causing more unfortunate
problems in society.
When children are in school, teachers and other
school staff must be just as knowledgeable and alert in preventing violence from students.
Most schools have done the right thing to prevent the bad and encourage students in doing good things by way of rewarding. Rewards include honor rolls, trophies, certificates, etc.
We return to issues with the media. How are we going to eliminate violence on TV, radio, movies, news, items in stores, etc? Most of this comes from the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission.
They decide what’s appropriate to send out to the public. What FCC
should be doing is restricting producers of TV shows and movies what to create for the public to view. Too many wrong messages have been sent, giving the public the idea that “if the actors and actresses
can do it, so can I.” One problem in this situation is from the First Amendment,
stating this is allowed by freedom of expression. We may have to change that
also to eliminate the knowledge to people of how people are hurting people.
What do you think of this? Do you think our government should study the sources of violence and resulting terrorism in our country
if we want a safer country? Can there be changes made from what we know today? Please reply with your feedback and forward to other people, legislature, and congress
people for their insight with at least email address (tphoffman@att.net) also. Thank you for your time in reading and God
Bless America!
