AS CRUEL AS A SCHOOL CHILDREN,,

When someone talks about children this use to remind us of innocence, kindness…in short, they are little people who never are up to no good. Even though nowadays children aren’t as sweet as they were in the past. Now they’re growing up too quickly. Children are exposed to a lot of information since their tenderest years.

First of all, they watch television many hours and it isn’t very recomendable. Actually, cartoon chanels of these days are made for older kids because they often show violent scenes, inapropriate dialogues, adults’ jokes…and children shouldn’t watch it when they aren’t even ten years old. The same happens on the theaters: there are only few companies which exclusively make films for the little ones. Unfortunately, the other companies make films which are recommended to nine year old children and they especially have sex scenes, blood, fights and a vocabulary completely inapropriated for the youngest spectators. Children are easy to convince and the greatest industries use films or cartoons to persuade them. They know exactly children’s weakest points so they send them subliminal messages through their favourite actors or cartoons. It’s really common on kids the wish of having everything the others have, especially when a fashionable caracther say they must have it. Even if it sounds unbelievable, industries earn lots of money selling this kind of products (usually useless or similar to others) like that.

However, there are worst things which have the control of kids’ behaviour. The most time-consuming technology is not only television because playstations, nintendoes and computers also have an important role in their lives. Children prefer spending hours and hours in front of a game machine than playing with friends or doing other activities as paiting or drawing. It means our society is making unsocial individuals who are incapable of doing anything on their own because from the first moment they have been depending on a machine.

As I said before kids watch a lot of violence and adults’ behaviour on television and when they’re interacting with other children they use this inapropriate behaviour as well. That’s the reason why nowadays little boys are all day fighting for anything and little girls play being the perfect woman. Anyway, it isn’t worrying when they are in school. It’s in the college where everything absolutely changes. Girls start dressing and making up as they were big women. Moreover, They want to smoke, have a relationship, go out…when they shouldn’t be thinking about it. both boys and girls try to look older bigger than they are.They usually try to copy older people’s behaviour: a famous person, a big brother/sister or a friend. They believe acting like this will bring them happiness and satisfaction but they often became upset because in fact they’re still children. They don’t want to accept it but they’re a child trapped in a teenager’s body.

Influences aren’t really positive at their age. They are living a hard situation because their personality isn’t well-defined yet. So, the great majority of these “big children” has low self-esteem. It makes them confused and insecure and they try to resolve it being accepted for the others. This acception is never easy. Sometimes children can live really traumatic moments when they feel the others’ repulse. Eldest people label children impolite when they just say what they think. In fact, little children still conserve inocence and they don’t say things to hurt people’s feelings; they only say what they heard at home. However, while they’re growing up they often became rude and then, eldest people are right. Now, when they’re a little bigger they say almost everything on porpuse to touch where it can really hurts. This is really dissapointing. Everyone is guilty of it because if we wanted to stop it we would have already done anything.

Unluckily, the problem is getting bigger year after year. The worst consequences happen at college. There are not only some fights or insults but bullying cases have increased recently. Those happy times have gone. Children commonly have a group of friends and in the group they are all quite similar. In the past children used to be all friends but now they make their own groups and when they meet someone who is quite different than them they considere immediately that person “freaky” or worst words. It seems to have no problem but I swear it has. When children see another child who’s extremely shy, introverted, who has other interests….they automaticaly avoid contact with that person. They laugh at the different child’s behaviour, they use him/her to make fun of anything, they manipulate him/her to do whatever they want through threats and they also cold-shoulder the ones who try to talk with that person. Do you think this is infuriating? Well, I haven’t finished yet. Insults, threats, shouts, humiliation…became common on the victim’s life. But when children get tired of it they start using violence. This violence includes punches, campions or even beatings. Many times they like recording it with their mobile phones, show it to everyone and laugh at it. They are little monsters and the worst thing is their parents almost never realize about it.

These “different children” are living hell just because they don’t want to be like the rest of children. And it isn’t fair!!! I agree our society is developing very quickly and we are growing up with a lot of information around us every day but it doesn’t justify this behaviour! Bullying victims have traumas, depressions and many more problems for life. Furthermore, in the worst cases they can’t stand and they commit suicide. A lot of children are victims of bullying nowadays and it has to stop soon. We have to teach children being good people, being polite, respecting the others… Our society is in decline and that’s only a little prove. We are living in a world plenty of injustices and it cannot last much more.

I only wish with all my heart justice for these innocent children and I hope those little mosters some day get their deserts. I always believe in karma. So, everything we do will sooner or later come back to us.