Importance of Role Modeling [ I don't understand ...]

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An'ya wrote :Now, I think I recalled someone saying how some of

these artists are, for lack of better words, "immoral" models for

children, as well as the rest of society (please call me down if I

am taking anything out of context). I agree...and fully understand

that viewpoint, but I think that is partly the parents' fault for

not watching their children in their times of greatest need. I am

not pointing fingers at anyone, but I have lived in a rent's

household a year ago, with children that were NEVER watched by their

parents. Sure, they would listen to me, but I could only go so far

on teaching them things for they were not my children and therefore,

was not really allowed to do much. The basic setting: parents leave

for work, children leave for school, children get home from school,

mother gets home late and does not spend much time with them, and

mother and father give the children money just to leave the parents

alone. Sorry, this subject got me on a ramble...I just feel

strongly that parents need to spend a bit more time with their kids

nowadays than they have been. Otherwise, children really have no

one else to look to as a model for anything, whether it be morals,

spiritual development, and so forth; thus, they will turn to the

media to find a substitute for those needs. That is my theory on

this, anyway.

 

 

Hello Anya, Welcome back. And thank you for this. I agree completely

with your theory. Role Modeling plays an important development in

children's upbringing.