VALUABLE ASSET IN THE SOCIETY
Having a Children's Month may recognize the importance of children in our society and We Filipino children are being recognize as the Most Valuable Asset in the Society.
Society is not committed to the success of our young people. Role models give young people an image for them to strive to attain. More important than striving toward a role model, however, is the fact that each child today must make their own individual development their primary focus in life. A child that maintains this focus will go a long way toward creating a positive action for him or her self.
Parents and teachers have the primary responsibility in the individual development of the children in their care. But we must deal with the increasing demands and pressures of our economy, the breakdown and dysfunction of family life, our difficulties and stresses in the daily lives of so many individuals today. In many households, divorce, and a single-parent homes has fractured family life and we are all aware that a single parent may not have the luxury of being present to counsel, give advice to, and develop discipline in his or her children. The resulting neglect is only one of the tragic outcomes of economic pressures felt at nearly all income levels. Pressure can create desperation. Desperation can create abuse of the self and of others. Today, painful evidence abounds of rising abuse in all forms.
Our society with a prevailing sense of uncertainty about the future. This uncertainty produces fear which consciously or unconsciously justifies an atmosphere of neglect of our children. Ongoing debates centered around the irresponsibility of children and, in the case of our black young men, presumed culpability.
Children today are not irresponsible, nor they are inquisitive, intellectually and politically aware. We are often faced with survival issues. We struggle alongside with our parents to make ends meet. We struggle to maintain the family home and to care for our siblings while parents are away at work. Children today very often find themselves in the position of trying to provide emotional support to a divorced, abandoned, over-stressed or addicted parent; support they have every right to expect but rarely receive from their parent. Children often tell me that they have to beg their teachers to teach them the things they need to know. In many of our communities they see friends, neighbors, and family struggle with joblessness, homelessness, abuse, crime and drugs.
These struggles have produced a high level of political, social, philosophic and spiritual awareness in children today. Having contact with children, entering into creative process with them, discussing and investigating the issues of racism, homelessness, crime, drugs and the images in which children are depicted in the media. I frequently witness children’s awareness and their struggles.
In this we must learn to survive at a very young age. Many times they are alone in their struggles. Their isolation often forces children to rely on their inner resources, which seems to have contributed to the spiritual awareness. Civic and business leaders, educators and the facilitators of progress must make a concerted effort to enter into a process with children to discover the nature of their struggles and to see children’s powerful awarenesses born of their struggles. Our leaders must see that children today have developed very strong instincts to survive and that children must be given the tools to enter into society. If they are not integrated into the society, their survival instinct will operate outside of the society.
Source: https://www.google.com/search?q=children+picture
https://www.google.com/search?q=children+picture
Parents and teachers have the primary responsibility in the individual development of the children in their care. But we must deal with the increasing demands and pressures of our economy, the breakdown and dysfunction of family life, our difficulties and stresses in the daily lives of so many individuals today. In many households, divorce, and a single-parent homes has fractured family life and we are all aware that a single parent may not have the luxury of being present to counsel, give advice to, and develop discipline in his or her children. The resulting neglect is only one of the tragic outcomes of economic pressures felt at nearly all income levels. Pressure can create desperation. Desperation can create abuse of the self and of others. Today, painful evidence abounds of rising abuse in all forms.
Our society with a prevailing sense of uncertainty about the future. This uncertainty produces fear which consciously or unconsciously justifies an atmosphere of neglect of our children. Ongoing debates centered around the irresponsibility of children and, in the case of our black young men, presumed culpability.
Children today are not irresponsible, nor they are inquisitive, intellectually and politically aware. We are often faced with survival issues. We struggle alongside with our parents to make ends meet. We struggle to maintain the family home and to care for our siblings while parents are away at work. Children today very often find themselves in the position of trying to provide emotional support to a divorced, abandoned, over-stressed or addicted parent; support they have every right to expect but rarely receive from their parent. Children often tell me that they have to beg their teachers to teach them the things they need to know. In many of our communities they see friends, neighbors, and family struggle with joblessness, homelessness, abuse, crime and drugs.
These struggles have produced a high level of political, social, philosophic and spiritual awareness in children today. Having contact with children, entering into creative process with them, discussing and investigating the issues of racism, homelessness, crime, drugs and the images in which children are depicted in the media. I frequently witness children’s awareness and their struggles.
In this we must learn to survive at a very young age. Many times they are alone in their struggles. Their isolation often forces children to rely on their inner resources, which seems to have contributed to the spiritual awareness. Civic and business leaders, educators and the facilitators of progress must make a concerted effort to enter into a process with children to discover the nature of their struggles and to see children’s powerful awarenesses born of their struggles. Our leaders must see that children today have developed very strong instincts to survive and that children must be given the tools to enter into society. If they are not integrated into the society, their survival instinct will operate outside of the society.
Source: https://www.google.com/search?q=children+picture
https://www.google.com/search?q=children+picture
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