It seems true. Kids that get hit at home seem to hit other kids every time they get angry at school. They're taught by their parents to react violently when things don't go their way.
This post was edited by Summer at March 3, 2018 10:23 AM MST
External stimuli seem to be the fuel for violence we see coming from adolescents and young adults. Parents allow it. Allowing "what's cool" with no filter as to what is good for one's child and what is not is a big way parents have contributed to the problem. Violent media entertainment and, for those kids who don't fit in, social media is a kind of hell for them. These kids often end up at the front side of a psychiatrist's desk and then fed medications that, in my opinion, should be reserved for self-consenting adults. Many of those meds carry side effect warning of violence and suicide. God save the children from their oft well-meaning parents. The mental illness that we talk about seems to not have a good diagnosis. I think mental health is the right target but I don't know how to classify a child who kills in mass. I do believe the ones who do and do not kill themselves during the event are suffering differently.
Apples may not fall far from the tree but this maxim does not stand when the outside influence of a tornado grabs and transports them.
This post was edited by Thriftymaid at March 3, 2018 5:16 PM MST
Nope. Great parenting and not-so-great parenting has produced great children and not-so-great children who have grown up to become great adults or not-so-great adults doing great things or not-so-great things in the world. There are NO guarantees. ~
That's true. But adults who have proven themselves to be great didn't grow up in the sea that those born in the past 20 years have. Not enough to make a blanket statement, in my opinion. I hope what we see right now is just a blip but technology will not control itself. It will take some hard societal and parenting decisions.
Making such a sweeping generalization. I do believe we are experiencing negative results of children having access to technology and violent entertainment media beyond what they can healthily process. The answer will have to include parents taking action to control those influences.
I have said exactly what you said myself in the past....good kids sometimes come from crappy families and vice versa. My feeling today is that both crappy and good parents will have to participate in making the changes the kids need in their home life and their access to technology. It will have to parents as well if mental health drug use is curbed in the care of children; I don't trust the professionals to do it.
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