Essay on 'The Role of the Media in raising Children'

Children need care and attention by their parents, also need a sound education. Through this sound education, children can stand up the society and the nation for better. In the past, the family was the only educator for children in cooperation with the school. However, many influences have entered in education with the evolution of life. The most important influence is the visible and audible media such as radio, TV and newspapers.Therefore, media has a significant impact on the education of the children.

The media is one of the most dangerous items that may affect the lives of our children, so it is easy to reach them in our home. There are no longer any limits or barriers to cross these means. It is a double-edged sword and we can determine the extent of their usefulness or harmfulness . In other words, media can affect children positively and negatively through the expansion of the perceptions of the individuals who can recognize the customs and cultures of different peoples. This leads to good behaviours and the development of civilization in some cases, but also is quoted with some wrong behaviours that don't commensurate with the teachings of the religion, customs and traditions of society and spread among the society, especially adolescents.

We do not deny that children have rights and duties that they must possess in the family, but at the same time there are things that should not be within their rights, so we must insist not to have them and prevent them to watch and see through the media.

To conclude, we have to hint that the parents should activate their role in monitoring their children from the media. We cannot close the door of evolution in front of our children, but surveillance must be directing them, and control over what they receive through these means and address them at the appropriate time whenever and whatever they receive from Information through it.

331 Words Essay by : Kareem Ghawi Abbas

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Child Labour Essay For Class or std 7

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Child labour is a compulsion of an under age child to do any physical work that deprive them from their childhood and which is mentally and physically dangerous and also which is morally, socially and ethically unacceptable. Prime reason of child labour is pauperism.

Their distress and daily need force them for engaging into easily available low cost physical work to water their fire of hunger. Pauperism is used by our society as an opportunity to exploit pauper children for business gain. In the financial tool of cost reduction of private companies child labourers are fully exploited indirectly. Households' jobs are the heaven of child labour in India and in many south east nations. Due to cutthroat competition of survival, children are more vulnerable for low cost labour. Rural people are much affected section of acute poverty. That is why rural children are forced to go to urban area in search of job.

International Labour Organisation has set laws of child labour specifically, under section C 138 of 1973; which defines that any work performed by children underage of 12, or non-light work underage between 12 to 14 or hazardous work done by 15 to 17 years aged children are defined as child labour. This Convention was adopted by  UNO in 1990 and subsequently ratified by 193 countries.  UNO initiated International Program on Elimination of child labour ( IPEC) in 1992.

There are many rules and laws but child labour is mainly caused by poverty and poverty is a complex issue which we are still struggling for wiping it out from our society. It is very surprising that child labour is a basic tool of poor people to fight against unemployment problem. There is logic to train children in mother technical trade of mechanical and electrical engineering. According to these people this is shortest route to get a job or becoming self reliant. It will guarantee but school or academic education cannot guarantee employment. However there is a chance of accident as children don't have maturity. This thought is being used in many countries by poor to fight against poverty. Taking this into consideration many countries have allowed certain safe technical training of children in which elders are attached with these children.

Many scholars recommend to formulate laws and rules but survival theory never follows any rule. It is because of this reason nothing works fully. Stringent laws may be beneficial on certain level, but it cannot solve the problem. In competition of survival everybody is trying to strengthen his position socially and economically. A high class professional want to at least retain his position or to uphold himself from present level, thereby ignoring all ethics. He never minds to save his money by expending less for his house job, because small-small saving will be a supplement for his rising education cost. Poor guardians are thinking that achieving such a level of education is out of their reach, therefore it is better to train their children from early time in different way of survival. Government usually fails to regulate rising education cost and cannot guarantee job security for poor. We have become highly scientific and least ethical and also we are moulding our children in same fashion. Due to this approach situation are becoming worse.

We need to work for self help for poor. Any government cannot formulate one to one rule for understanding the prevalent poverty among the various type of people biased with different costume, religion and rituals. Therefore our duty is to know closely our people to understand their children's involvement in child labour activities and to support them with available government's facility   so that the children, who are precious gift of God, could be aligned to right path.

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Essay on 'Childhood' For Class 5 (589 words) | 'My Childhood' Essay

                                 By Azra Ahmad: Total- 589 Words

Essay Introduction

Ah! When I was a child the world seemed to be a place of joy and happiness to me. There was nothing worth worrying about. Whenever I cried somebody picked me up. When I did not like to sit alone, I was always in somebody’s arm. I was not born in a rich family. So my mother always looked-after me. I was not kept under the care of a hired nurse.

My School, My Friends and Teachers:

When I was six years old I was sent to a small but nice school. Soon I made friends with tow or three boys. Even now I clearly remember faces of my school friends and teachers.

When I was young I did not like my school teacher because sometimes he used to beat me. It is good that the system of beating (punishment) is abolished now. We had to go to school early in the morning. In the beginning like most boys, I was unwilling to get up early in the morning and go to school. But as I grow interested in my studies I enjoyed going to school.

My Mischief, Excursion and late coming:

In the afternoon, we played all sorts of games and pranks in the street. I was very mischievous when I was young. When I saw a man passing on the way, sometimes I would pull down his turban and run away. Sometimes when I found a bullock cat waiting on the way and the cartman gone away for a while on business, I would ride the cart and drive the bullocks to some distance and disappear. On his return, the cartman was puzzled when he did not find his cart. But this made us roar with laughter. The cartman would run after us but we would disappear through small lanes.

When I was ten years old, I had gone with some boys to a neighboring village on pool. I did not inform my parents. We could not return till it was very dark. My parents were very anxious. They searched for me everywhere, but I could not be found. At last, when they saw me coming back late at night, my father jumped at me. He held me firmly by my arm. When he was about to beat me, my mother came forward to save me. I was let off with a strong scolding. A father, though gentle is often strict, but a mother is always tender to her children. My mother always saved me from the anger of my father. Thus I liked my mother more than I liked my father.

The Beginning of worries and anxieties:

As I grew in age, worries about my studies and small worldly matters came upon me. By now I have been in a higher secondary school. I would prepare myself for the higher secondary examination. As a young boy of fifteen I was expected to help my father in the work of shopping and in buying vegetables in the morning.

Conclusion:

Childhood is free from cares. There are no duties and responsibilities on the shoulders of a child. A child eats drinks, sleeps and plays. When he eats a piece of bread, he does not think from where it comes. His father alone knows that. Even when someone dies in the family, a child is not touched. As child lives in a bliss of ignorance and innocence. Really as Wordsworth says: “Heaven lies about us in our fancy”. The memory of those good days makes me happy.

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