IMPOLITENESS AMONG YOUTH
A social problem is a condition that at least some people in a community view as being undesirable. Everyone would agree about some social problems, such as murders and theft. Other social problems may be viewed as such by certain groups of people. Teenagers who play loud music in a public park obviously do not view it as a problem, but some other people may consider it as an undesirable condition. Some nonsmokers view smoking as an undesirable social condition that should be banned or restricted in public buildings. We can say that social problems actually give bad effects not only to individual, but a large number of peoples.
Besides that, the act of social problems can give threaten and need to do something to make a recovery or to make it better. Various cases of crime also include Juvenile cases. This are a few statistics about social problems in Malaysia.
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| Crime Index |
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| Drinking Index |
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| Drugs Index |
Major problems among teenagers are
smoking, alcohol and drug use. When teenagers start smokIng, a few of them
might not end with smoking only. They are using and abusing drugs such as
marijuana, ecstasy, heroin and morphine. Adolescent involved with alcohol and
drugs in many ways. Unfortunately, they do not see the link between their
action today and the consequences in the future. Using alcohol and tobacco at a
young age increase the risk of using other drugs later. Some teens will try and
stop, some will continue to use drugs seldom without serious problems but
others will become addicted to it and will use more dangerous drugs which can
harm themselves. There are few reasons why teenagers involved in drugs, smoking
and alcohol. Some of them will say that they took alcohol, drugs and tobacco
because they want to feel grown up which they will make their own decisions and
also be able to do what they want to. The most important and natural part of
growing up is to fit in and belong to a group. It is natural that teenagers
want others to accept and like them. Sometimes the group they want to join is
using the illegal stuffs and they may be attracting to use it too just to fit
in the group.
Illegal racing is also a serious problem which occurs among teenagers. Illegal racing means riding on a motorcycle or driving by doing dangerous style and action with over speed limit and racing with each other in a group without a permit from the government. This activity will cause a very serious danger to themselves and other road users. They are riding and driving a modified motorcycle or car with over speed limit and doing many dangerous actions like superman’s style, stand on the motorcycle’s seat while riding and drive carelessly. They race with each other just to get the prize which usually some amount of money, girls, to show off and also to get praises from their friends on their victory and bravery. Their behavior can cause a serious accident and also death. But most of them did not aware of all these consequences. They are only looking for excitement and self-satisfaction.
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| OPS Sikap 2013 |
There are more other social problems which involved teenagers. There are few questions we can ask ourselves. What are the causes? Why teenagers get involved in such unhealthy activities? Who should be blamed on the problems? How to prevent the problems from ruining the teenagers?
In the young age, the level of
curiosity in a teenager’s life is very high. Whatever they hear, see, read and
learn about, they will always ask what, why and how. This feeling will
encourage them to try a new thing without bothering the effect in their lives.
When they see an adult smoking, taking alcohol and drugs, they wonder the taste
and the feeling. At this stage, adult especially parents should guide their children
and tell them about do and don’t, right and wrong. Teenagers need a clear and
transparent explanation why they have to and do not have to do something. Give
them the right information without hiding any fact, so that they will
understand well the reasons. Never lie to them in order to stop them from doing
the wrong things. This action will leave a bad perspective to the teenagers
that adults like to lie and make them find the answer through other
uncontrolled sources.
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| children are eager to learn something new |
Besides curiosity, a teenager love
to take risk. In early adolescent years, youth are courageous and may have high
risk behaviors. For them, the more challenging and risky the activities, the
more excitement and satisfaction they get. This will be a good thing and also
bad, depends on how they manage the challenge and what are the activities. As
parents, usually they will not allow their children to involve in a risky
situation. So, we can assume that the teenagers who love to take risk are
always influence by their friends. In this situation, the role of parents is
important to know all their children’s friends and their activities. The
examples of good challenging and risky activities are hiking, rock climbing,
water rafting, diving and jungle tracking. But on the other hand, the bad activities
are like illegal racing, vandalism and gangsterism.
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| Support your children |
Family especially parents play an important role to make sure that their children did not involved in unhealthy activities. There are many teenagers who involved in serious problems lack of love and attention from their parents. Nowadays, the parents are going out early in the morning to go to work and reach home at midnight. They do not have sufficient time with the children. So, who will teach them to be good girls and boys? Who will tell them what are good and bad actions and also what the effects if they are doing the bad things? Having a working parents will be either good or bad thing. When both of them are working, the conflict in the family can be avoided due to double income but for the children, they may be do not have a person to share their feelings, problems, happiness and sadness rather than their friends or outsider.
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| Parents guidance |
From the factors we have discussed, we can conclude that education is the most important agenda to prevent our young generations from being manipulated by the tough situation. Parents should enlarge their knowledge and skills on how to teach their children. They should monitor their children from useless or harmful activities. Love your children and develop them to be humble young generation. Therefore, education comes in two forms, informal education from parents and friends, and formal education from school, where knowledge is gained especially in academic fields.
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| Love your children |
The government also done a lot to be
together to control and prevent social problems among teenagers. Many events
exhibitions were held to attract youngsters to have healthy lifestyles. For
examples, last year there was an event held at Putrajaya known as Million
Youth Assembly in conjunction with the National Youth Day 2012 and have many
interesting activities. Rather than that, there are many youth club which can
be joining by the teenagers according to their interest. So, all teenagers
should not waste this opportunity to involved in such healthy activities and
enjoy their young age.
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