A recent survey was conducted with 900 kids aged five to seven as respondents. The survey sought to find out the moral values of the children. Surprisingly, the statistics showed that more kids tend to have a "darker" side, and the numbers seem to add up on a daily basis. The survey result is a wake up call for parents to spend more time with their children. Take a look.
Weak Family Attachments
According to Yahoo News, 73 percent of these children prefer to share stuff with friends instead of their siblings. This is a cause for concern as such depicts the weak family attachment of these young kids.
Growing Sense of Selfishness Not Selflessness
Out of the 900 kids, 63 percent of them do not want to share. At such a young age, children are expected to be attuned to sharing but the survey showed they're more concerned about satisfying their own needs. These kids have the tendency to become more selfish as they grow older.
Lack of Social Skills
The survey also showed that majority of the kids, accounting for 55 percent, want to spend more time with a gadget (tablets, TVs, computers, etc.). They would rather spend time facing a screen instead of being with friends or reading.
Leaning Towards Violence and Indifference
When the kids were given a situation where they see a wounded bird lying on the ground to see how they would react, 45 percent of them simply shrugged, saying out loud, "What can I do?" There were also 68 percent who admitted to either having thrown a stone at an animal or pulled tails of some.
Edcationist Swati Popat Vats, the lead researcher, shared her thoughts on parenting. She said that, "Parenting is an instinct; you cannot be trained to be parent! And parents have lost connection with this instinct as they are depending more and more on 'what others do', 'leaving their kids completely to others to care for' and getting confused with the vast influx of material available on the net on parenting."
With values being lost on a day-to-day basis, there might be some real danger in the future in terms of diminished morality. This shift in values has the ability to create a huge impact on the structure and stability of society later on.
As stated in Beyond Today, the Director of Clinical Services, Family Institute at Northwestern University, Gary Hill, Ph.D., as an advice to parents said, "You need to make time to be with your kids and make the time you have with them really count." Parents should now start taking more time to talk to their kids and being there when their kids need them.
