Gaur egungo gazteak gehiegi al dute?

In my opinion modern society has played a significant role in shaping children as selfish and spoilt, but a closer look would prove that youngsters are rather suppressed and even struggling for attention in the grown-ups’ world.
To begin with, successful and ambitious parents often buy beautiful and fancy presents for their children under the pretext of care and consideration. Yet, on the bottom lies a troubled consciousness for not having enough time to spend with them, which craves to be soothed. Constant business trips and working overtime are filling adults’ task schedules. Unfortunately, some of them miss to realize that the real important thing is their children and the care they need. Having dolls and being surrounded by beautiful objects make a child happy and rather spoilt, but deep down there is a sustained feeling of sadness and lack of attention, a hole which is to be filled with nothing but more presents. Thus, the youngs learn to want more material stuff, which will assure only a temporary feeling of satisfaction and security.
Another spoiling practice lies in parents’ tendency to buy the most recent fashionable objects, so that the youngsters would not feel like social outcasts. New mobile phones, ipods, stylish piece of clothing and any other imaginable faddy toy, will be bought just because it is trendy. Consequently, children begin to compete with one another merely on the base of the material.
All this spoiling and tolerating of severe competition among youngsters makes them learn the adulthood’s lesson too soon. Their seemingly carefree days are just a prelude to the grown-ups’ world. The constant struggle for success becomes a part of their lives very early. No matter whether it is a sports competition or a school project the most important thing becomes the win and not the joy of playing.
All in all, today’s children may seem rather indulged, but the truth being told, most of them lack the untroubled years of freedom – freedom from material things and prejudices, freedom to give and receive attention in exchange for nothing.