Republishment: This Is For The Parents - Pt. 1

For those who didn't have the chance to read the last article in theweek, I am republishing it here, for their convenience..

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The media has always been known for it's powerful indirect force upon different generations of people in influencing opinions and bringing up momentous tantrums that are bottled within the weak at heart to courageously voice their 'one man's voice' point of view.

In the last 20 – 30 years, the multimedia so called device – the television and it's contents in terms of programmes and channels have evolved from being just a small black and white dull moving pictures box to just another luxurious and elegant widely used household device. One that holds such importance, it is often quarreled over for the remote to flick unto the desired broadcasting station and sometimes is quite frequently, more favored – nowadays – than enjoying the beautiful, outside, ever-changing nature with it's unpredictable lovely weather.

But, that's not what this is all about.

It's understandable that the youth of this generation will get influenced by TV as we were back in our youthful days. But the point here is that they have set off on the wrong foot. They have no interest in global issues that could seriously affect their own future, except when they are asked to write about them in their weekly/monthly essays. They are now more influenced by music videos and reality shows such as American Idol, Star Academy and Superstar. They've been convinced by the current media programmes that getting to their dreams is just as easy as doing the A-B-C. The youngsters now think that doing the wrong thing is 'way cool' just because the fundamental idea behind it is rebellious. Like wearing tattoos, boys wearing earrings, young girls with odd piercing habits and skimpy clothes for either gender and 'rough' fashion looks.

When instead what they should be taught is to mingle in with the right friends. Be more family-friendly so they can learn to discuss issues that shadow their heads with black clouds of doubt. This is in no way an extreme opinion about how to live one’s life but merely an example of how the youth can benefit from their time in doing something more productive and beneficent unto them.

Gone are the days that one could trust the media with the issues that parents could rest assured would not waken them through the night having to think that their children are being exposed to a bad and very distasteful audience who demand nothing but the pleasure of having to watch over someone else's lives and how they live instead of paying attention to their own family's progress and their own problems and issues.

Nowadays, parents are not only required to watch over their youngsters in terms of whom they go out with and how they behave but are also demanded by current times to watch over what their fashionable skills are according to what society accepts, and try to keep a short leash on their behavior when in public; children or not, they are the responsibility of their parents and in that concept of thinking, their actions are our responsibility, if – God forbid – anything should go wrong.