It's been a while...

...says the father to his boy as he turns off the T.V. He tells the boy that he isn't proud of him and that he needs to strive to do better, and hopes that when he gets back from his business trip that he does. Then turns the T.V. back on.

Something wrong with that scenario? If you said no, there's two reasons for that, one being that you either were raised this way and know nothing different or because you are allowing your children, the future of the world, to grow up under these circumstances.

Oh and did I mention, this is what that parent would consider a heart to heart talk. Some quality time spent there, huh?

Fading are the days where parents would burst into burst into their child's room and scream, "get dressed were going to the movies!" And gone are the days where families would sit down at dinner together and discuss their troubles in life.

I don't blame this entirely on the participants of this scenario, but they are a large factor. For ultimately it is there decision to hand over parenting to the entertainment industry. Of course we know all the excuses, I don't know what else to do, I don't have the time to spend, or simply I don't care.

All, wait, no they aren't valid reasons, but they are reasons I suppose. Like I said before, though, one cannot place blame solely on these parents. No, it is also the entertainment, oh wait, no they don't play a part in this, as some people believe. No, it is the marketing and advertising industries that are promoting the wrong things in the wrong way.

They are the ones that peak children's interests, the way they promote the "evils" of the world causing children to lean twoards the forbidden things that they should not know of until they are older. In the end, I guess it leads back to one thing, temptation. 

I know what you're thinking, let's not get biblical now. No, that's not my point and that is not how I am going to convey my message, for you see it's plain enough to see without it. Parents are tempted by the fact that it's easy to just let toys and electronics do the raising, because what do you do to a crying baby? You give it what it wants instead of what it needs, so naturally why fix something that's not broken; because it's broken in the first place. And to the children, rebellion is within their genes, natarually if it is forbidden they are going to want it, and doubly if it is enjoyable. Like too many sweets, they know not the ramifications of their desire.

So I guess I leave this final note, we should be more careful to how we raise children, we shouldn't just base our method on what we do with them when they are infants just because it's easy. And the media shouldn't advertise forbidden concepts and items, because though they might not be doing any harm, this is certainly not helping the situation. 

But of course, what do I know, right? I don't have even have a girlfriend, let alone children.

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