Our way of parenting
Over the past couple of week, we have witnessed a significant number of terrible crimes, in the name of peer-rivalry, rejection in love relation, committed by youths who are even below 25. While the government is responsible for the over-all deteriorating law and order situation of the country, for these particular incidents, I want to hold parents responsible. What are the parents doing these days? Don't they have any control over their children? Especially with respect to a male child, our family culture is always terribly biased. Even as a little child when a boy becomes angry, we pamper it, and find a kind of pleasure seeing our sons' turning into the proper 'Masculine'. And most of the time, these children see ,within their households, that their mothers or sisters are dominated and dictated by the male members, without giving a slightest care about what they want. Therefore, the boys of our society grow up with a terrible sense of superiority, we credit them for what they are not, and we are afraid of their anger when they should be taught basic human nature of tolerance and respect. All these malpractices within a household produce disarray and confused children who become easily gullible to project the worth in the most appalling manner. To end my letter, I want to request all the parents of today, instead of teaching your children (irrespective of boy or girl) that when they grow up they need to be doctors, engineers or barristers, please teach them the basic human qualities, set example before them of love and respect for all. Otherwise, it is not that far that we will find young people, going to such and such schools, colleges and universities to be enlightened, but taking lives and committing crimes as if they belong to the age of darkness.
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