Are the parents in Kerala imitable mentors to their children?
Although the parent is the child’s first teacher, he/she may not be the child’s best teacher. A parent may be unsuccessful in communing important lessons to a child either by precept.
Joining the rat race of the global scenario, Kerala parents have also jumped into the bandwagon and with their own shrinking daily life schedules; little do they get time to reserve for their children. And though children easily develop to be grown up citizens, they easily take up the reins of their own lives as and parents find less time to spend with their family. As a result parents these days fail to be imitable icons and teachers to the younger generation.
A negligent mother who doesn’t have time to teach her children about dangers involved with electricity, fire, or household chemicals is sure doing a grave wrong to them. A child who is ignorant about such essential knowledge would necessarily end up in deep trouble throughout his life. At such circumstances, one would naturally feel that someone else other than the parent himself would have made better teachers for the child and thus could avoid such natural catastrophes.
A parent who doesn’t find time to instruct to his kids the ills of drug consumption is again another strong culprit of a
civilized society. The naïve child who has never been exposed to the dangers of drugs to his own health and life will easily fall a victim to it. A recent instance that can be best quoted in this context is that of a mother who out of her intensive addiction to Facebook callously murdered her own baby. It is definitely a very grave question as to how such mothers can be role models to upcoming generations.
There is also the possibility that a parent transmits his/her own biases to their upcoming generations. A child who mutely learns to imitate the ideology and behavior of his parents would learn to grow into anti- social elements of the society coupled with the hostile ambience he may find himself later. Parents may try to “malimprint”, or negatively instruct children in many other ways as well. Therefore, the earlier held belief that parents are children’s best teachers no more hold true today.
Though all these form the crux of reality today, not just in Kerala but on the global scale, the prospective to resolve the general mindset is indispensable. Let not all the blames of the modern societal menaces fall on the younger generation any more. A generation of goodness and prosperity owes all its merit to its ancestors who were their role models. What is imperative today is a host of parental icons who solely can shape a better generation for a better tomorrow.
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