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Raising Good Children

KIDS are just one of the greatest gift God ever bestowed to couples, sometimes to single moms. Nurturing them is just one thing and raising them well is another. Basically kids goes through various stages inlife as a young and it is indeed important that they being guided by the grown ups, especially by their parents.




However, kids have their own various personalities that they themselves dealt upon so it is important that they are being understood.

Dr. Lickona's big ideas on 'morality is respect' is one to ponder on. It is indeed true that kid develop morality slowly and in stages because they inherit the "idea" of what is moral and what is not through his/her environment.




Grown ups should teach them by example; teach by telling them; and kids should be train to take on real responsibilities - let them feel that they have a role to play, it's one way of letting them feel they are being relied upon; and that they are important.

It is necessary to let them feel that they are being trusted, it gives them more confidence. Confidence is a key to lead them live their life independently. However, the grown ups should also balance independence and control, they should always be at kids' side to guide them when they are off the track.

Emotional intelligence remains to be one ingredient to a quality living, may one be an adult or a kid. It is one of the basic need of a social being, but somehow people forget the significance of which in one's life.

Goleman's five basic principles in his book emotional intelligence is another key to successful parenting. He suggested that emotion should be maximize by parents in the most constructive ways, even focusing on such everyday issues such as sibling rivalry, fights with friends, school situations, homework, and peer pressure.

In the Daniel Goleman's extensive experience, he learned that children respond quickly to these strategies, their self-confidence is strengthened, their curiosity is piqued, and they learn to assert their independence while developing their ability to make responsible choices.

Indeed there are cases of having a "difficult child"; sometimes they just sprang up despite the love he/she gained from his/her family. Sometimes it is because there had been a lapse in process of raising these children. One instance, maybe parents somehow allow their kids to manipulate them rather than teaching them how to respond to life and life's tough situation. Parents cannot be completely blamed on this scenario, because sometimes, parents argued that they only want the best for their kids, so they give them too much love. But remember, sometimes too much of everything is bad. Everything should be under control.

Drs. Swihart and Cotter suggested a program that teaches parents to say no without feeling guilt; to resist the urge to feel responsible for their child's happiness; to view their children as emotionally competent and resilient; and most importantly, to realize that effective parenting means allowing your child to make mistakes and develop a sense of competence, which leads to enhanced self-esteem and an ability to live independently and successfully in the real world.

It's hard work to raise kids, but it's parent's work.

When one flips through the Yellow Pages, you'll find page after page of therapists and child treatment services offering to "help" troubled children and "treat" bad behavior. There is an increasingly aggressive advertisements featuring slogans and touching renderings of tearful children and adolescents bereft over their inability to succeed. The clear message is " If you even think there's something wrong with your kid - we can fix it."

Indeed, sometimes kids can have minor disorders, and such should be treated at once.

In Los Angeles, the competition between hospital based programs and out-patient therapy centers for business has become fierce and it is business. Clearly there are more private sector services available than are needed, even if such assertions are incorrect and practitioners are instead facing an inexplicable and unparalleled epidemic of behavioral illnesses of unknown origin.

It appears that in many cases, the concept of behavioral illness has arisen as the result of two major factors:

Multitudes of parents uneducated in child-rearing skills
Clever marketing by therapists and treatment centers.
If one takes a minute and think about it, everyone achieves immediate benefit from the concept of behavioral illness. If parents become convinced that some disorder is responsible for misconduct, they no longer have to assume the responsibility for correcting it.

Instead of being angry at their kids for misbehaving, they can feel sorry for them. Since it is human nature to feel terrible if you blame someone for something they can't help doing, parents then stop blaming their kids. Kids so excused receive increased freedom and control and have more fun. Therapists are then called in who make money. Since there is actually nothing wrong with their patients ( the children ), treatment goes on and on.

In the meantime the kids are free to and sometimes encouraged to misbehave. ( Some therapists believe that good therapy entails letting kids do anything they want to and observing the result ). Parents become more hesitant to make demands on their "sick" kids, so conduct deteriorates because kids are thus free to do increasingly more outrageous things in their relentless pursuit of a good time. When the therapists finally give up the kids get put into hospitals and other kinds of "inpatient" programs which then get to bill for their services.

Everybody wins in the short-term. Eventually, however, the money or the insurance run out. The kids return home. Their behavior is now really intolerable. Nobody likes them. City, County and State services become required. Police and juvenile officials get involved.

The kids eventually begin to suffer. And when they finally do they suffer the most.

They become known as " bad " kids by other parents, teachers and peers. They feel as though they are always " in trouble." School performance deteriorates until any efforts exerted academically seem to be a hopeless waste of time. The kids become depressed and despondent. They turn to drugs and peers and gangs in a desperate search for relief and understanding. Often, they wind up abandoned by parents, in juvenile hall or out on the streets. For many, crime or prostitution become essential forms of income. All too frequently they commit suicide.

This is every parent's nightmare. It's becoming a national crisis. The myth of behavioral illness is what, in the long run, turns the nightmare into reality. Let's dismantle the myth. Let's find some real answers. Kids should be taken seriously.

Listening is an ability that should always be applied when dealing with children, Thomas Gordon also asserts this in his book called Parent Effectiveness Training. He further explained how to talk to kids by reflecting back what they said to show you are listening to them. It is also important to make I-statements instead of giving orders because, this gives them a feeling of belongingness, that they are not being bossed around because they are loved.

Cliche as it seems, but in almost all studies - LOVE remains the key to dealing with various kind of individuals. Once you make them feel that "they matter" in the world - there is no way of alienating him/her in your world.

Kids are one of the most sensitive being on earth, they should be treated with care and respect. They are not mere kids, they are human beings with feelings. As early as childhood, parents should be careful in molding their sons and daughters because what they become is a reflection of the way their parents raised them.

Development with Equity

Inequality remains to be the biggest obstacle to the country’s development according to World Bank director for the Philippines Joachim Von Amsberg – thus we cannot say that the country has achieved Development with Equity.

Equity is defined in terms of two basic principles. The first is equal opportunities: that a person’s life achievements should be determined primarily by his or her talents and efforts, rather than by pre-determined circumstances such as race, gender, social or family background. The second principle is the avoidance of deprivation in outcomes, particularly in health, education and consumption level.

The world development report 2006 encapsulates the very situation of the Philippines – the rampant inequality in terms of income, assets and opportunities. Though the government is continuously creating jobs, yet, the qualified Filipino workers are still small thus leaving a greater number still unemployed.
The labor force population in January 2006 was registered at 35.2 million; this translates to a labor force participation rate (LFPR) of 63.8 percent. The total employment in January 2006 was 32.4 million, which results to national employment rate of 91.9 percent. Now the total unemployed persons numbered 2.8 million in January 2006, which translates to an unemployment rate of 8.1 percent. The incidence of underemployment went up to 21.3 percent in January 2006 from 16.1 percent a year ago.(NSCB).

In terms of income, even if there are about 63.8% unemployed Filipinos, they have meager income, not enough to sustain their needs. And because they have low income, they are remains unable to upgrade whatever assets they have, that is if they have one. It still remains that whoever has the resources, s/he is the one who can afford to acquire new assets, or properties that they can sell in times of need. Indeed it is difficult to attain development with equity in a country like our. However there’s a way to attain this.
In my point of view, maybe our country has to realign its priorities in terms of implementing economic and political reforms.
There is a great need for new policies that would address the country’s need to attain development with equity. The present government has to invest in people – this does not just mean about manpower or labor force, rather it includes especially the early childhood nutrition and development which translates to various issues – food security, sound population policy and better health services. Our country’s countryside still lacks hospitals, health workers, etc. Investment in people also includes quality education services – this does not just mean their college education but their early years in school because it is the basic foundation of every Filipino worker. The far flung areas of the countries still lack schools because the concentration remains in the center, there still are neglected areas and the government has to address this. Also it is important that the high school years until the college education are given utmost attention ensuring that the graduates are equipped with proper education and training in their field. It is a common reality that there maybe a hundred thousands graduates every year but not even 80% are hired because they fail to meet the standards of the company they are applying for even if it is in line with course. Also to consider providing safety nets to insure vulnerable groups from shocks especially because there are groups that needs such attention in cases of war, tragedies – since the country is infested with these kinds of atrocities and calamities; as well abuse cases on women and children.

There is also a need for expansion of access to justice, land, and economic infrastructure such as roads, power, water, sanitation and telecommunications – the basic infrastructures literally and figuratively. People need to be provided with proper justice thus, they should be taught with the law – they should know the law, to know their basic rights. They should also be provided with quality infrastructures not just a kind of road that needs to be repaired after months. The basic services for the people in the country should be good as well if not perfect.

Furthermore, there is also a need for a policy that promote fairness in financial, labor, and product markets, so that poor people have easier access to credit and jobs, and are not discriminated against in any market. In fairness to the present government, PGMA is extending her way to implement programs for poor people to have easier access to credit, but there is still a need for the more sound information dissemination among this group so they can avail of these opportunities and they should be taught as well how to manage it.
Equity in the international arena is also a central concern, and can play a powerful complementary role to domestic action. In a globally interconnected world, leveling the international playing fields, both economically and politically, will help domestic efforts to combine equity with efficiency and growth.

In my view, equity and economic efficiency as well as growth are complementary in the long run to reduce the poverty prevalence - together with the interdependence between the economic and political dimensions of development it also reinforces the importance of empowerment among people who resides in the country.

The country can still meet development with equity so long as the leaders aim for it and do the necessary policies to address the country’s problems not just their personal interests.

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On Civil Disobedience

Civil disobedience encompasses the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government or of an occupying power without resorting to physical violence. Civil disobedience has been used in nonviolent resistance movements in India in the fight against British colonialism, South Africa in the fight against apartheid, in the American Civil Rights Movement in the fight against segregation and disfranchisement, and Europe as well as in the Scandinavian resistance against Nazi occupation. Henry David Thoreau pioneered the modern theory behind this practice in his 1849 essay Civil Disobedience (available at Wikisource), originally titled "Resistance to Civil Government". The driving idea behind the essay was that of self-reliance, and how one is in morally good standing as long as they "get off another man's back"; so you don't have to physically fight the government, but you must not support it or have it support you (if you are against it). This essay has had a wide influence on many later practitioners of civil disobedience. In the essay, Thoreau explained his reasons for having refused to pay taxes as an act of protest against slavery and against the Mexican-American War.

Thoreau's central argument in his essay was “resist what your conscience can not support, even if you are in the minority.” As much as Thoreau detests the Mexican War and slavery, he always remembers his responsibility to himself. Thoreau's attitude toward reform involved his transcendental efforts to live a spiritually meaningful life in nature. He also tried setting up the reader to understand his own action of conscience. He also showed the typical Thoreauvian paradox, which seems to be logically contradictory, but is not, if one takes into account what he means by "gives himself."

It is important to consider why Thoreau chose to address this important issue as a question. His idea, I believe, is to push the reader to think for himself, consider the implications of everyday laws by which the general public abide. Thoreau would answer his own question by suggesting transgressing "them at once." He also underscored that there are men who have lost their manhood, according to Thoreau.

Thoreau's call for every man, even one man, to withdraw support from the government; a very transcendental philosophy is at work in this statement. Transcendentalists believe that there is no end to a question; the door can never be closed. In this way, one man who withdraws his support is the beginning of an endless cycle. This is Thoreau's call for every man, even one man, to withdraw support from the government. A very transcendental philosophy is at work in this statement. Transcendentalists believe that there is no end to a question; the door can never be closed. In this way, one man who withdraws his support is the beginning of an endless cycle.

Thoreau certainly believed this, and he used this essay as a chance to point out that he actually spent a night in prison in an effort to remain faithful to his conscience. He presented one solution to the problem which In fact, during the Vietnam War, there were a number of people who withheld their taxes, putting them aside into accounts which neither they nor the government could access, as a means of protest. These are powerful arguments for most. One reason that Thoreau chose to live as he did was so that he could be truly independent, not having a family which might be threatened when he acted on conscience. This is an important part of the great cost that one must pay to act according to conscience.

For Thoreau, truth is not always going to dictate the right path. It is not the main concern of truth to dictate the fairness of wrong doings. His final statements in the essay give Thoreau an opportunity to depict the "really free and enlightened state" that he imagines in the future. He goes on to say that he imagines a place where the individual and the state will be in mutual service. The individual will have power, rather than be dominated by the "overwhelming brute force of millions." The State will recognize the individual as a "higher and independent power (Wood).”

REFERENCES

Gandhi, Mohandas K. Satyagraha in South Africa. Trans. Valji Govindji Desai. Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1928.

Bedau, Hugo Adam (ed.). Civil Disobedience: Theory and Practice. New York: Macmillan, 1969.

Harris, Paul (ed.). Civil Disobedience. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1989.

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter From Birmingham Jail." In his Why We Can't Wait. New York: New American Library, 1964, pp. 76-95.

Thoreau, Henry David. The Variorum Civil Disobedience. Ed. Walter Harding. New York: Twayne Publishers Inc., 1967