Are you concerned about societal issues such as increase in crime, burglary, increase in teenage pregnancy, teenage drinking, increase in broken marriages...? or any issues that you feel is affecting the society as a whole.
It is no longer news that homes are being broken into - even when you are around, and different tactics are being used by burglars to gain access to homes.
I had a personal experience couple of days ago, it happened one evening when I was settling down to have my dinner, I heard the door bell, and went to check who was there.
I saw a guy who had an identification badge of one of the popular TV cable company hanging on his neck at the door, and he said he had a better packaged cable channels to offer, and that I should allow him enter into my house to check the channels I have on my TV.
I said NO, but he tried everything possible to persuade me to gain entrance. I just became suspicious of him because I wonder why someone will want to force himself into your home just to check your TV channels because he wants to market another product to you.
I feel something need to be done fast and very quickly to create awareness to people about these people employing different tactics to gain access into peoples' home and robbing them of their belongings. There has also been so many incidence where mobile phones are being snatched from people in broad daylight.
Please feel free to share your own story and suggest what you feel could be done to reduce these increasing menace in our society.
Our society this days is becoming what nobody ever thought of, hardly you could hear any good news again on the media but only problems related issues, one is tempted to believed its because of the recession, even with that what we have this days is not what our great grand fathers and fathers has but then such is not happening, i think we should all sit down and channel a course which we want to follow its a choice to steal,not to steal or to kill or not.
According to a report from http://www.empoweringparents.com/Teens-Alcohol-and-Binge-Drinking.php .
Teens have found a new and dangerous way to get drunk—they’re drinking hand sanitizer, which is 62 % ethyl alcohol. 6 cases have been reported so far in emergency rooms in San Fernando Valley, California, according to a recent story in USA Today. This follows on the heels of teens eating “drunk gummy bears” at school (Gummy bears dipped in vodka), serping, or drinking cold syrup to “Robo-trip” and the “vodka eyeballing” trend that reportedly started in the UK.
Some teens drinking hand sanitizer have been using salt to separate the alcohol from the gel, creating "distilled" 120 proof liquor. Only a few cases have been reported so far, but it could signal another dangerous trend of alcohol consumption by adolescents. A small amount, akin to a few drinks, typically causes a person's speech to slur and stomach to burn, making kids so dangerously intoxicated that they need to be monitored in the emergency room.
According to an interview in the LA Times, Cyrus Rangan, the Director of Toxicology for the County Public Health Department and a medical toxicology consultant for Children's Hospital Los Angeles, “All it takes is just a few swallows and you have a drunk teenager. There is no question that it is dangerous. It is kind of scary that they go to that extent to get a shot of essentially hard liquor." Why are these trends happening, and why are teens drinking more potent alcohol these days to begin with? Many experts site pressure (both academic and peer) and availability as the leading culprits. The average age in North America when boys start drinking is now 11, and 13 for girls. A high number of teens and pre-teens are binge drinking, which is defined as consuming 4~5 or more drinks of any alcohol in one setting.
Dick Schaefer, an addiction counselor and the author of Choices and Consequences: What to Do When a Teenager Uses Alcohol/Drugs, says that kids are also into the newer, flavored hard liquors the alcohol industry is producing. “And they’re not sipping—they’re gulping it down like soda,” says Schaefer. “The kids I see at the addiction treatment center tell me they drink every weekend, and they get drunk each time. For many of them, that’s their goal.” He maintains that alcohol is the top risk for teens and pre-teens when it comes to substance abuse, and the Surgeon General calls it “The drug of choice for teens in America."
I hope we heard or have seen the video posted online of 68-year-old school bus monitor Karen Klein in Greece, N.Y., being bullied and verbally abused by middle school children. They called her fat, ugly, and swore at her repeatedly. The worst part? One of the kids said that she was so ugly her kids would rather be dead than look at her. 10 years ago, Klein’s son committed suicide.
The level of verbal abuse, bullying and disrespect has reached new heights in our society. How could these children have possibly thought it was okay to treat this elderly woman this way?
This children behavior saddened my heart when I watched the video, It is a big shame to the parents of these children. I feel they did not train their kids to respect their adult.
Or can we say this is the way they behave to their parents too?
We parents all have a great role to play in controlling the way our children behaves to adult.
Guys let me know your opinion/suggestions relating to any of the issues I have highlighted. You are welcome to share your own personal opinion with us on this blog.
Over the last two decades, societal Issues have become a huge concern for most families and governments all over the world. Crimes, particularly among teenagers sound like having a meal. Where do we lay the blame? Is it on the parents, schools or the government.
I am particularly concerned that the government in most developed countries have taken discipline out of the hands of schools and parents. Besides the government are slow to respond the needs of struggling families in terms of assisting them to cope with difficult children, but they are quick to take these children away from their parents and dump them into care.
Most children on the street are those from broken homes and in the care system. If the government can spend half of what they spend on maintaining children in care on helping struggling families, most of these children would be at home now with their families and not on the street.
With the tons of millions spend on the care system every year, most of these children turn out worse than when they are with their families. The government needs to get their priority right.
Are you concerned about societal issues such as increase in crime, burglary, increase in teenage pregnancy, teenage drinking, increase in broken marriages...? or any issues that you feel is affecting the society as a whole.
ReplyDeleteIt is no longer news that homes are being broken into - even when you are around, and different tactics are being used by burglars to gain access to homes.
I had a personal experience couple of days ago, it happened one evening when I was settling down to have my dinner, I heard the door bell, and went to check who was there.
I saw a guy who had an identification badge of one of the popular TV cable company hanging on his neck at the door, and he said he had a better packaged cable channels to offer, and that I should allow him enter into my house to check the channels I have on my TV.
I said NO, but he tried everything possible to persuade me to gain entrance. I just became suspicious of him because I wonder why someone will want to force himself into your home just to check your TV channels because he wants to market another product to you.
I feel something need to be done fast and very quickly to create awareness to people about these people employing different tactics to gain access into peoples' home and robbing them of their belongings. There has also been so many incidence where mobile phones are being snatched from people in broad daylight.
Please feel free to share your own story and suggest what you feel could be done to reduce these increasing menace in our society.
Our society this days is becoming what nobody ever thought of, hardly you could hear any good news again on the media but only problems related issues, one is tempted to believed its because of the recession, even with that what we have this days is not what our great grand fathers and fathers has but then such is not happening, i think we should all sit down and channel a course which we want to follow its a choice to steal,not to steal or to kill or not.
ReplyDeleteAccording to a report from http://www.empoweringparents.com/Teens-Alcohol-and-Binge-Drinking.php .
ReplyDeleteTeens have found a new and dangerous way to get drunk—they’re drinking hand sanitizer, which is 62 % ethyl alcohol. 6 cases have been reported so far in emergency rooms in San Fernando Valley, California, according to a recent story in USA Today. This follows on the heels of teens eating “drunk gummy bears” at school (Gummy bears dipped in vodka), serping, or drinking cold syrup to “Robo-trip” and the “vodka eyeballing” trend that reportedly started in the UK.
Some teens drinking hand sanitizer have been using salt to separate the alcohol from the gel, creating "distilled" 120 proof liquor. Only a few cases have been reported so far, but it could signal another dangerous trend of alcohol consumption by adolescents. A small amount, akin to a few drinks, typically causes a person's speech to slur and stomach to burn, making kids so dangerously intoxicated that they need to be monitored in the emergency room.
According to an interview in the LA Times, Cyrus Rangan, the Director of Toxicology for the County Public Health Department and a medical toxicology consultant for Children's Hospital Los Angeles, “All it takes is just a few swallows and you have a drunk teenager. There is no question that it is dangerous. It is kind of scary that they go to that extent to get a shot of essentially hard liquor." Why are these trends happening, and why are teens drinking more potent alcohol these days to begin with? Many experts site pressure (both academic and peer) and availability as the leading culprits. The average age in North America when boys start drinking is now 11, and 13 for girls. A high number of teens and pre-teens are binge drinking, which is defined as consuming 4~5 or more drinks of any alcohol in one setting.
Dick Schaefer, an addiction counselor and the author of Choices and Consequences: What to Do When a Teenager Uses Alcohol/Drugs, says that kids are also into the newer, flavored hard liquors the alcohol industry is producing. “And they’re not sipping—they’re gulping it down like soda,” says Schaefer. “The kids I see at the addiction treatment center tell me they drink every weekend, and they get drunk each time. For many of them, that’s their goal.” He maintains that alcohol is the top risk for teens and pre-teens when it comes to substance abuse, and the Surgeon General calls it “The drug of choice for teens in America."
I hope we heard or have seen the video posted online of 68-year-old school bus monitor Karen Klein in Greece, N.Y., being bullied and verbally abused by middle school children. They called her fat, ugly, and swore at her repeatedly. The worst part? One of the kids said that she was so ugly her kids would rather be dead than look at her. 10 years ago, Klein’s son committed suicide.
ReplyDeleteThe level of verbal abuse, bullying and disrespect has reached new heights in our society. How could these children have possibly thought it was okay to treat this elderly woman this way?
This children behavior saddened my heart when I watched the video, It is a big shame to the parents of these children. I feel they did not train their kids to respect their adult.
Or can we say this is the way they behave to their parents too?
We parents all have a great role to play in controlling the way our children behaves to adult.
Guys let me know your opinion/suggestions relating to any of the issues I have highlighted. You are welcome to share your own personal opinion with us on this blog.
Over the last two decades, societal Issues have become a huge concern for most families and governments all over the world. Crimes, particularly among teenagers sound like having a meal. Where do we lay the blame? Is it on the parents, schools or the government.
ReplyDeleteI am particularly concerned that the government in most developed countries have taken discipline out of the hands of schools and parents. Besides the government are slow to respond the needs of struggling families in terms of assisting them to cope with difficult children, but they are quick to take these children away from their parents and dump them into care.
Most children on the street are those from broken homes and in the care system. If the government can spend half of what they spend on maintaining children in care on helping struggling families, most of these children would be at home now with their families and not on the street.
With the tons of millions spend on the care system every year, most of these children turn out worse than when they are with their families. The government needs to get their priority right.