a nation of screamers...
I have a neighbour that screams at her child. It's not a one off event. It's quite regular. But while I cannot make out everything that she says. At least you can make out it's directed at her child.
But that's not the point. Instead, I want to talk about what happens when parents constantly scream at their children. Firstly, I want to say that screaming is not effective, unless you claim that it's good exercise. Anyway, what's the point of screaming? Do you need to tell your neighbours that you are discipling your child as the model parent should? Or is your child hard of hearing, therefore the need to raise your voice? Perhaps your child is hard of hearing because of all the screaming in the first place.
The worst effect of screaming at the child would be that the child would grow up thinking that screaming is the only way to deal with people when they are upset. So you get teenagers screaming at each other thinking it's normal. You'll get more and more parents screaming at their children, not knowing how else to deal with ill discipline.
I think the only setback of living in Singapore is that none of the neighbours are doing anything about it. (Including myself) Indifference. That's what a nation of screamers will be built upon.
But that's not the point. Instead, I want to talk about what happens when parents constantly scream at their children. Firstly, I want to say that screaming is not effective, unless you claim that it's good exercise. Anyway, what's the point of screaming? Do you need to tell your neighbours that you are discipling your child as the model parent should? Or is your child hard of hearing, therefore the need to raise your voice? Perhaps your child is hard of hearing because of all the screaming in the first place.
The worst effect of screaming at the child would be that the child would grow up thinking that screaming is the only way to deal with people when they are upset. So you get teenagers screaming at each other thinking it's normal. You'll get more and more parents screaming at their children, not knowing how else to deal with ill discipline.
I think the only setback of living in Singapore is that none of the neighbours are doing anything about it. (Including myself) Indifference. That's what a nation of screamers will be built upon.
posted by alvin_c at 12:10 am
3 Comments:
Yeah, the same here in Spain. If you hear a neighbour screaming at her child, wife, we'll all keep quiet, mutter from our homes but say nothing. I hate shouting to others, as you say it's not effective. It only encourages more bitter feelings, more anger that the shouter has to let out and does so by shouting at whoever has at hand. Speak. We hear shouting at wives until they are found dead and nothing can be done about it. Not nice. We live in our microworlds, selfishly, individually. Children are spoilt but nobody takes responsability. Children are shouted at and abused and we do nothing about it. i think it all stems at the parents education in the first place, so teach, educate adults first and only then will they be able to bring their children up fine!
For the sake of the child, can you say something to someone? Is there no social services type of system you could alert?
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" - Disputed author.
Posiblemente este padre de familia, haya sido educado a los gritos, por eso piensa que es la regla a seguir. y si no se corrige, estos hijos harán lo mismo.
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