One of the things that disturbs me more than just about anything is to see unruly children .. I see them in the playground, at school, in the restaurant, at the mall. Children who have been allowed to rule themselves and do just want ever they want.. acting horrible until they get what they want. I cannot even imagine how difficult these children will be as they enter puberty and become sometimes even larger than their mothers, or show absolutely no respect to anyone, least of all their own families. There is an evil spirit of lawlessness in the world today, that permeates our cities, and even our homes. It crushes my heart that not even our children are valued enough for some parents not to want to spend quality time with them when they are young. Instead, I suppose the tv or social media is their monitor, just set them down in front of the tv to entertain themselves for a while to get them out of the way. I've witnessed it, even decades ago, and I can only fathom that is is worse today, because children act out more today. I am so glad I retired from teaching 21 years ago. I wouldn't be able to stand the classroom of today!It is no wonder that our academic scores are lowest ever. The statistic I saw was a long range stat showing a decline long before covid. I took a look at changes in child behavior over the years. and one researcher wrote this
"With the passage of time and changing social activities, the behavior of children towards adults is also changing. If we compare children behavior with what it was before, we may see that children behavior has become worse over the years. There are many factors that are contributing to change in children behavior. Some major factors include changing trends shown at TV, changing status of people, attention not giving by parents and poverty. Now a day, the children are deeply involved with latest technologies. Technology has become much advanced as compared to the years ago. Children spent most of the time playing games, watching movies, TV shows and cartoons. They are less indulging in physical activities. Also the games and TV shows they see involve good behavior violations. All they include is fighting, planning bad for someone etc. Though the video games, TV shows and movies are fictitious but they all are having bad impact on children behavior. Children are becoming carefree, thankful-less and they do not appreciate and learn the good things done by others around them.
The family life and family gathering is also going to decline as compared to years ago. Today there is lack of communication between children and parents. In fast moving world, today's parents are not getting enough time for children. Surely, the fault lies with the parents. In early years, in schools, students were also taught about their behavior and attitudes but now today's schooling is more focused on getting just education not behavioral education. Though the education has become far better than before but there is lack of adequate behaviors and respect for authorities, rules and elders."
