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From Cute Babies to Gremlins

Our Children are growing up to be more repulsive everyday. You often hear how children are in crime, how they murdered, mugged and terrorise people because they have nothing else to do. We find more and more teenagers in gangs, stealing and raping among other atrocities. This makes me wonder what causes these children to become monsters in our community.

To my knowledge many of these children who go around terrorising other people for their enjoyment often comes from broken homes, abused by their parents and guardians and also because of lack of support from the people around them. On the other hand you will have a few of these children who come from good home. They are so weak that they succumb to peer pressure, maybe because their parents drain all the confidence in them so they aim to get it back through gangs. Whatever the answer is, the contrast baffles me as two different children can grow up to be the same thing gremlins! When I see parents (often mothers) with their cute little babies, I often thought to myself 'what a cute little baby' then I will look at the parent and wondered 'what kind of parent are you?' Will you be one of those parents who can't raise their child, making them change from cute babies to ugly gremlins? This thought really scares me but I am trying to make sense of the possible indicators that causes this failure.

Could it be?

Parent(s) will give the child every little thing they want sometimes (without merit) when they do not deserve it. Then when that child turns 14 and the parent can't afford it the child get their knickers twisted and kicks up a tantrum, often stealing from parents then eventually go mug an old lady for their handbag to get what they want?

Parent(s) cannot control their child/ren. Often the single mothers will have their hands full and cannot cater for the child/ren's emotional needs. No father figures around so they want to take that role?

The good old Peer Pressure where child has such a weak personality that they end up joining a 'strong' group of people to feel more secure. Often parents will abuse their child/ren physically as well as emotionally so much that all their confidence is gone. Parents respect your child they will do the same.

Too much TV, Internet and Video games? Parents don't want to spend time with their children so they give them TV's, Internet and video games in their rooms sometimes the children are as young as 3 years old. Are you stupid parents? Violence is promoted on TV for a while now, it encourages people to curse, even in cartoons. Children will see this and tell their mothers to 'shut up!'

My take on the whole thing

Whether we like it or not there will forever be unruly children. They often do what they believe is right or because it has been done to them before by their parents. We can help to reduce the amount of gremlins on the streets by nurturing our own children. We can nurture them with the basic principles on how to become an 'alright' person who does not want to mug and murder people because it is justifiable. On this occasion I am going to blame the parents because it is them who have control over the above factors or actions that affects their children's' lives. One of my sayings is that 'An apple tree can never produce grapes' or melons if you like. Going by that theory then if you are a good parent i.e. you nurture, control, teach your children etc properly, more than likely they will grow up to be 'good' people, well at least not gremlins.

I acknowledge that all communities suffer from this trend. At the same time more than likely its is the black community who suffers this more, as this community is so unstable that everything in the equation (society) is stacked against black people so its harder for them to move forward. However the majority of them are doing well at rearing their children and they must be commended. Back to the point I was making, it is often the single mums with black children who have to work 24/7, to the dads in prison, to the poor parenting, to the terrible school system that do not know how to deal with young black males. The whole structure seems to stockpile against this community. I do hope to be an excellent parent as I aim to learn from the mistakes of the parents who brought up gremlins.

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