Daddy

peh-boo:

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Hahaha. :lol: Maybe when we were younger, parents not that rich, must work during school holidays so that we can buy the stuff that we want so less trouble. Maybe the govt can consider setting a law that say kids to do volunteer work during school holidays instead of during normal school days so that can keep them occupied during holidays and then less trouble. :roll:

but even those youths are using school holiday programs as an excuse to stay out of house but getting themselves into trouble with the law - the recent downtown east case is a good example.

peh-boo:

kwokwc:

[quote=\"peh-boo\"]peh-boo say all these youngsters school holidays too free liao everyday hang around in game arcades n internet cafes watch violent movies play violent games now trying to show-off in the streets lor.

hokkien say: jia pa boh sai pang chuey tai jee - eat full no sh1t to put find trouble lor! :x

Hahaha. :lol: Maybe when we were younger, parents not that rich, must work during school holidays so that we can buy the stuff that we want so less trouble. Maybe the govt can consider setting a law that say kids to do volunteer work during school holidays instead of during normal school days so that can keep them occupied during holidays and then less trouble. :roll:

kwokwc:

peh-boo:

peh-boo say all these youngsters school holidays too free liao everyday hang around in game arcades n internet cafes watch violent movies play violent games now trying to show-off in the streets lor.

hokkien say: jia pa boh sai pang chuey tai jee - eat full no sh1t to put find trouble lor! :x

Hahaha. :lol: Maybe when we were younger, parents not that rich, must work during school holidays so that we can buy the stuff that we want so less trouble. Maybe the govt can consider setting a law that say kids to do volunteer work during school holidays instead of during normal school days so that can keep them occupied during holidays and then less trouble. :roll:

peh-boo:

peh-boo say all these youngsters school holidays too free liao everyday hang around in game arcades n internet cafes watch violent movies play violent games now trying to show-off in the streets lor.

hokkien say: jia pa boh sai pang chuey tai jee - eat full no sh1t to put find trouble lor! :x

Daddy

peh-boo:

we suggest our dear chenghoo close down all game arcades n internet cafes to keep our kids safe at home.

wat u all think? :?

Even the CCs, Safras and some of the student care centres have computer room for the kids to play LAN games...

peh-boo:

we suggest our dear chenghoo close down all game arcades n internet cafes to keep our kids safe at home.

wat u all think? :?

sall:

It's all the parents' fault. They spoilt their kids and now all the kids are out of control. I know a friend who allowed her child to beat anybody, now the child is using umbrella or any available 'weapons' to hit anyone. :shock:

janet_lee88:

Nowadays, both parents are working and earning well...to make up for their 'disappearance', they buy the latest gadgets for their kids. But what they do not know is material needs cannot make up for their love and guidance.

When we have kids, someone has to sacrifice...kids grow very fast and bonding takes time. However, both parents are busy making more money. By the time they want to be close to their children, they realized they have missed the boat.

toddles:

Am also wondering abt the recent spate of slashings... is it a copycat effect from the first downtown east fatal incident, or have they been happening all the while, but just unreported?


and now suddenly reported because there is public / media interest?

and as for why, I suppose it's the culmination of a generation of parental neglect. not something new... everyone is too concerned with earning more money, putting bread (and sometimes fancy luxuries) on the table, thinking that the best they can do for their children is to earn more for them to get creature comforts... and they are blind to the fact that the children are languishing from lack of attention, lack of the setting of boundaries that would see them through life...

MummyThreeStreams:

Yea, I don't get it either.


I'm not saying that my boys are perfect and well-behaved - they often are not. But when I see my friends' kids misbehave and their parents not doing anything about it I sometimes feel like I really need to step in. Does anyone feel the same? Do you step in?

For really close friends I have done on the rare occasion - telling them off the same way I would for my kids e.g. when my friend's child started hitting my friend at my home, I told him that hitting in my home was a time out offence and if he did it again he would go time out. He stopped immediately and that was it. But that's all I've done and I need to be sensitive to the other parents.

25hourmaid:

That's why I was shocked when I saw that boy that day! :shock: Don't tell me that his parents are so busy/blind to the extent that they did not notice that his behaviour is not consistent with that of an 11 or 12 year old?


To me, if the parents noticed his behaviour, such things can be nibbed in the bud and corrective actions taken. I am sure he is no goody good boy at home too, so what was it that the parents did not see?

janet_lee88:

25hourmaid:

I would blame the parents too.


I was at a Shopping Centre recently and I saw this boy, barely 11 or 12 years old at most, and my goodness, he was behaving like a real hooligan/gangster! Shudder to think what he would grow up to be! :shock:

Teachers can't spank...how much can they discipline either ???
Parents are the ones who have to do that...sparing the cane will do more harm. There is a saying, when the child fails to behave, the mother is the one at fault.