It is true that when you travel around, your reservoir of experiences get larger and larger as you get to see different places, eat different types of food and most importantly, meet different types of people.
As you meet more and more people, your understanding of human life in terms of all its facets becomes deeper. You get to hear stories that you never thought could be possible. I will admit, its not always rainbows and unicorns and some of these stories could shock you to your core and you begin to ask whether we humans are inherently good or bad.
I was pondering about this today and I just couldn’t find an answer. Then my mind wandered to what type of a person I think I am and how I became so. Then a light bulb went off in my head and I suddenly got the answer to my question. We humans become the way we are because of how we are brought up.
Children Are Like Clay
When we are born, we literally don’t know anything. We even don’t know how to speak or walk or eat and are slowly taught how to do each of these things by our parents. As we get older, we learn how to write, run, speak, make sense of the world and so much more.
Then when we get older, our parents teach us deeper stuff about what it means to be a human. We learn how to behave in different situations and people, we learn about good things and bad things and how we should always try to do the right thing. Basically every thought of ours is guided by our parents.
Of course, as we grow up, we develop our own thought processes and conclusions about the world that may or may not be similar to what our parents and teachers at school teach us and that is completely fine. Individuality is what makes us unique as a species.
But the basic point is that children are like clay and they become the way you shape them and find their individuality within the shape that you have given them. So, when you can guide your children to become whatever kind of people they can be, of course, everyone should choose to mould them into good human beings.
The World Needs Good People
Now, you must be wondering that every parent in the world would, of course, try to raise their children as good human beings and you are right, but only partially. You see, sometime parents can unknowingly set them off in a completely different directions despite their best intentions at heart.
What we see in the modern world is the hectic lifestyle that we have all gotten accustomed to. Basically, parents may not have too much time in their hands for the proper development of their children, physically, mentally and emotionally.
As a result they are often left with caretakers who may not always have the best intentions at heart or even care about how and what children learn. Not only that, some parent may not know how to do it in the first place and some families just have a very dark history that pushes children toward darkness.
I believe that the people that we call ‘bad’ have goodness inside of them. I believe that we human beings are inherently good people and the ones that turn to the dark side do so because they are pushed in that direction by an event or a series of events in their life. But the realization that all these people could have become totally different human beings; good human beings, if they were just guided properly, makes me really disappointed.
The world we live in today is dangerous and we need good people. We need a lot of them and I think the change will begin from home. So, please, think consciously about your child’s development and pay real attention to their emotional side. That’s the one that dictates our whole life.
you really observe the life very deeply @travel-cuisine and your each sentence are true."The World Needs Good People" nice line.And yes parents have a great role to make their children good or bad as childs are really innocent.great post for the society.thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much for the kind words :)
thanks to reply @travel-cuisine,I was waiting for your reply.You are very beautiful.God bless you.
Interesting concept. I agree.
Thank you :)
You have good understanding of life and your observations are correct, it is true the role of parents in the life of children cannot be overemphasize. The world really need good people. I like your post @travel-cuisine
I am glad you like it. Thank you for the kind words :)
In Nigeria, where I come from, a child is raised by the community. If a child misbehaves, the next door neighbour can scold him or her. But some parents would still frown at that. I agree with you, that the upbringing of a child matters in determining whether such child will come out right.
This is something similar to here in India as well. The upbringing of a child is given a huge focus here.
Good post
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Nice Blog @travel-cuisine , all the best wishes for you
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Train up a child in the way he should go so when he is old he won't depart from it. Parents should learn not to over pamper their kids because they are the leaders of tomorrow and they display whatsoever morals they were brought up with
Yeah, usually the over pampering is one of the biggest mistakes that parents make.
Excellent post!.
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May be we are in the right place to already embrace the change, from your writing a good energy flow and I like to read you because I fell simply good
Thank you for you efforts and keep it up ;)
Thank you for the kind words :)
This is some good stuff !
I like your other posts too. Keep at it! Cheers
Thank you for the kind words :)
Children are the future of the world.
They really are :)
I must say, this is really well written :)
Thank you for the kind words :)
True words. Change begins from home and the way you are raised has a great influence on who you become in life. Great post :)
Exactly!!
I am totally agree with you. What a quality blog!
Thank you for the kind words :)
Very true words @travel-cuisine So we are human beings, moldable by our parents, friends, society; every moment we live forms us and "molds" us and we are often unaware of it. But we are like that and so we live day by day, being constantly molded and shaping others.
That is exactly how children develop. Always learning and being shaped by everything around them.
Children are our future making parents' presence very important in their up bringing. Thank you for this important post!
They really are :)
I resteem your post deer keep it up hope you support me i am new on steem thanks
Thank you :)
I really appreciate this message passed! And you are very correct om the stages and environment in which we build children of the future. But first those parents were once children and if thry werent brought up good it might passed on to the next generation either good or bad .but i feel apart from we livimg our children to maid who might not have good intentions or csn build the life of the child, i feel parents need give their child the ground of boldness with that, they can speak expressly om what they feel good or bad with that corrections can be made. And in general parental education is the best conpare to what is taught in the classroom. Thanks ones mote for this info! We all can change the world not one man 👏🖒
I agree with everything you've said. True words :)
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Very powerful article. I like it very much
Thank you :)
Actually we do know how to do things. It’s intelligence inside the body from our ancestor time. A child knows where food should go. The body remembers. Our parents are just there but they usually try to teach us stuff that hasn’t worked for them. Our parents usually haven’t realized any deep truth about life yet. What makes us unique is consciousness and the ability to have awareness. You don’t have to shape kids in a certain way. They are fine just the way they are. You don’t have to give them a shape. They will develop in any way they want. There are no “Good” or “Bad” human beings. Labels like that just divides the world. The only thing that exist is just humans.
But you should still guide them, I think. For example, murdering someone is of course "bad". Don't you agree?
Just have to be a good role model
Job well done.....
Thanks.
Good Work and I am strongly agreed