Charity begins at home. The behavior of children is most influenced by the parents as the earliest role models. Thus proper parenting is paramount in shaping the future of a child
Parents should interact with their children and through these interactions children acquire behaviours enabling them in becoming effective members of society.
According to Psychologist Lev Vygotsky, the way children learn is by internalizing the activities, habits, vocabulary and ideas of the members of the community in which they grow up.
Schools are communities where children from diverse cultures learn together. Teachers must help students to become active and goal oriented by building on their natural desire to explore, to understand new things and to master them.
Inappropriate behaviour especially bullying, drug abuse, theft and premarital sex should be prohibited in schools and teachers should help children understand about their body biology and gradual changes they experience as they grow.
Parents should provide detailed information about their children to help the school handle every child based on parent information. Some parents tend to provide wrong information about their children while joining new schools.
National and multinational corporate companies involved in the manufacture of a variety of products including ciggerates, cocaine, condoms, beer, liquor and sex enhancement drugs have mostly used the images of youths on advertisement billboards, packaging and visual commercials thus directly encouraging youths into consumption of such products.
It’s therefore required of government institutions responsible to address the issue of outdoor advertisement and branding of such products directly linked to youths moral failure.
Advent of new media and television with subsequent modern programming has attracted more children especially the youths into consumption of drugs and alcohol and sex since television programs present an image that when such is embraced one feels great, powerful and in charge.
Parents ought to devise means of controlling use of internet and programs presented by television to their children at home based on the ages of children.
The parents should provide to children vital information about sex education and cautioning them against consumption of illegal stuff by presenting to them associated problems.
The current generation of youths is more advanced and bombarded with a lot of information and products leaving them with more choices as opposed to the generation of their parents whose youthful lives were generally under strict cultures, family and religion.
This thus calls for adjustments among the parents and society institutions in the way they address challenges of modern society especially those affecting youths.
Large numbers of family breakups mostly brought about by the challenges of modern lifestyle have left more children growing up in dysfunctional families thus lacking proper parenting.
Scientific researchers ought to add their voice to finding solutions to prevailing society challenges.
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