LET's PLAY THE BLAME GAME!

LET's PLAY THE BLAME GAME!

 

-SANGHAMITRA GOGOI
MACJ

Truly said-‘violence begins at home’. Now how much of this statement is justified? I would say, its everytime or never! Specially the intensity and number of violence by children have been increasing since past two- three years. Children as we say are true hallmark of innocence, they are quick learners. Recently while going through my psychology case history book i came across this character name Dalton who is 14 years old. The case highlighted opened with series of criminal cases imposed on him. And out of curiosity i started searching for various reason to unfold this case. I was intensely surrounded by the question of why’s and how’s.

While going through his entire life- history of this juvenile i was knock down by pity for this little boy who had never seen the rising sun. He was a boy of utmost talent, would never break parental rules a true epitome of a child grown to adult. Later he came across things which he had never expected would drag him towards insanity. And that was greed. Daltons greed lead him to commit a crime of stealing and murder.

 Nowadays children donot think its necessary to take permission for doing something which they believe falls in the periphery of the parental norms. Because they more or less have realised the psyche of their so called blinded parents who would agree to their interest no matter how out of norms it may fall. This is where the drawback lies and that would be ignorance. This indirectly means pushing your own child towards dead end. In the present scenario we face difficulty in calling few parents as their childs idol or guiding star. After reading this article parents should definitely think twice before saying yes to their child regarding their necessities.

The crime rate and violence increases due to these set of wrong practices which according to parents will increase their childs respect for them, which is an another misconception. These set of parents who believe that giving a poche and luxurious life to their child would make them socially eligible to fit in a plastic society then this set of mentality would be false on their behalf. Nowadays , the conversation between a parent and their children would be limited to talks like clothing, luxury or an unconscious motivation for something which would bring them money instead of moral values.

It is therefore an immediate repercussion to the communication gap which is evident through cases like that of Dalton. This was Daltons greed for himself to have the best of everything which ultimately threw him into the shade of darkness. The power of greed at a tender age can ruin your childs life too if you don’t take precaution to lessen the implication. When money becomes a child's possession they choose to follow the value of hardwork. These are violence which a child faces secretly throughout their entire life and about which we are ignorant . This a battle which they face it everyday.