Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents can no longer control what their children do ; their behavior gets more influenced by television, movies, and other influence outside the home. Use specific reasons and examples to support your idea. |
"Control or release, that is the problem." This seems that Shakespeare might say if he had his children. As the world changes drastically, plenty of problems that make parents hard to control their children. According to that, I do agree with that parents can not control their children as much as they did long time ago. The rationales behind this are that children are exposed to lots of multimedia that makes them rebel and have tendency to be especial by and large.
First off, children are exposed to many things that make them rebel against their parents. Parents became hard to protect their children from a huge amount of bad things from television, movies or internet. For instance, there is channel named MTV which is literally popular to children or teenagers. However, MTV sometimes contains pretty bad stuffs such as bad behaviors of Hollywood stars. To use statistical information from local newspaper, 70% of parents have children said that MTV is not appropriate for children, as well as it makes parents really hard to control their children because they always want to do as Hollywood stars do.
Furthermore, Children have tendency to be special. Generally, children is inclined to be bad to get spotlight from their parents, teachers or peers. To illustrate, my cousin who is 11th grade in high school always wanted to be with their friends who use drugs. Because he wanted to be special among his friends, he crossed the bound for using drugs. Now, he is in hospital and getting treatment every other weeks.
As I have shown above, I do believe that parents are no longer able to control their children easily. The time that children always follow their parents passed already. In this time, parents should focus on how to control and protect their children from bad things and tendency to be bad. |