Fortunate Generation or Unlucky Generation....

Moving toward a more globalization era and full with technologies, we might feel that children nowadays have very fortunate life. How old was you then when you receive your first handphone? I guess most of us from our generation receive it during the time we almost going for our tertiary education or for some wealthy family, they might got it when they were in Form 3. Looking at the children now, they even have a good handphone when they are only in primary four. They even carry a better model compare to me!!

Children are more fortunate with available of internet and other technology which enable their daily life become easier. Years ago, when we are doing our school project or studies paper in secondary school, we have to use hand to write. Nowadays, children started to use computer. Family is getting wealthier and children can always enjoy their life compare to the others.

However, these bunch of children, loss a lot of things that we has experience. Looking at Nurin case recently, it was proved that children no longer have freedom. When I was small, I always run from the lower street up to the upper street, from houses to houses, cycling from one place to another and play around in the neighbourhood without worries. Can children nowadays do that? Definitely no. With majority of parents working at day time, children have to be supervise by either "evil" maid or been put up in tuition centre. Their life is full with pack schedule - school, tuition, music class, dance class, art class,language class, swimming class and lots more. Besides that, look at their school bags. During our time, our bags already goes few kilo and now it become more worst. Children have stress managing their school work which was added with other works such as tuition and music class.

Children was stuck in the Malaysia failure education system where they were punished for doing something which is logical and correct but was wrong in the sense of education. I still remember most of my teacher stresses on the important of grade rather than personality skills and behaviour. As long as you can score, that will be a good students. That is the biggest failure of the school or even up to the university stage and this is the reason why Malaysia education system had manage to produce thousand and thousand of useless graduate to add into the statistic of unemployment.

Besides losing freedom and stuck in the educational system, children lose friendship and lots of good time like we use to be. I believe people in my generation, get to visit from houses to houses to have fun or go out together to play soccer or cycling together. This rarely happen even in safe neighbourhood.

Children are lack independence nowadays according to a research I read. Children use the reason of being too fortunate as not being able to be independent. Why not. With such a dangerous country plus family are able to support their children 24/7/365 it was not a reason why children become lazy or choose not to be independent. Everything was arrange by their parent and they just follow. Did you see any kids nowadays taking buses??Yup, but getting lesser especially the Chinese! Their parent will drove them to wherever place they wanted to be...oopps...not everywhere, only to school, tuition centre, swimming class and other classes...Not friends house..hehe...

What ever that happen in the era now, it was not too late for us to change. The main reason of why children are either too fortunate or too unlucky to be born in this era is causes by mainly 3 reasons. Parent attitude toward the children, Government policies (education) and the safety of the country. When I think back my childhood time, it was full of enjoyment, less stress and most happy time. Children are mean to be innocent, straight forward and stress free. We never end up to backstabbing each other like what happen in university or college life. So why must we take away the only memorable period of their growth? As we move on, comparing our generation and generation to come, are they more fortunate or are they not? The answer lies whether we are moving to a better life or going backward to a more barbarian life.