February 15, 2012
Published: 26 May 09 09:08 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
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A 16-year-old boy has been arrested for the attempted murder of a 16-year-old girl at a bus stop in Upplands-Väsby near Stockholm on Monday afternoon.
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This is getting common now a days. Strange is that even we taxpayers pays a lot in social taxes to train our boys to be more tolerant and respectable citizens. BUT we failed , we failed.
Someone truly said once. " We have learned how to WALK on MOON, But did not learn how to Walkt on Earth like a Human being ".
This riot will increase unless we change our attitude ... usual "Mama, Papa Jobba , Barn på Dagis" ..
Napolean rightly said " Give me Better mother , i will give you best nation".
iDialogue
And making them tougher would not have helped one iota in this situation.
*best stay where you are*
What i said is that one of the cause of this kind of riots and increasing number of violence in our children is due to negligence from parents. We have the collective responsibility to train our children but what we do is :
We work both Father and Mother, send our Child to Dagis, We come back from work , tired , dont give proper time to our child . watch TV , send our child to his/her room and sleep zzzzzzzzzzzz.
Children when see this kind of negligence from parents they feel empty from inside and try to fill it with Media, TV, Films and Games. which damage their minds.
Also we are not allow to stop our children even if they do bad.. that is Caveat of Swedish system.. Now when things get out of our hands we BLAM Police.. to handle our 'problem Child'...
Think and test your own behavior and rectify otherwise "what you SOW, so shall you BEAR".
iDialogue
I agree not only 100% with you but one thousand percent...This is really true, "Give me Better mother , i will give you best nation".
Perfect, Person in dagis is only responsible for taking care not for building character. When parents will not give proper time this will happen.
I believe as we progress as a society, children younger and younger are becoming more intelligent and aware at quite a young age. I saw this 10 year old with an iphone, I was quite impressed with what he could do on it. Fact is we do not punish children very hard for their actions. Gangs have for years been using teens to commit crimes such as murder. At those impressionable ages the sanctity of life is a little lost on them, its only natural that this would spill over from gangs into the general public now and then.