WHY IS YOUTH MADE WORTHLESS?

Sir,

When adults generally speak about young people it always tends to be about the bad things we do. Naturally young people are bound to make mistakes and do things that are uncalled for. I am not one who condones bad behaviour but do parents ever look at the consequences of the words they say?

As a teenager I see people my age turn to a life of crime not because they are poor but because they are retaliating and proving a point to their parents. The Bible says ‘as a man thinketh so is he’, if you are to think you are disciplining your child by saying he is worthless and a liability they will think that’s what they are, and it is what they will be. It’s very simple, your words control who your child is going to be.

Yes, today’s youth is getting out of hand as 10-year-old children are now crying over their so called ‘boyfriends’. At age 10 I would get home and play TV games and watch Yogi Bear. However, adults now look at these children and call them upcoming prostitutes. No! They might be doing things that are robust for their age but it does not mean they will not grow up to be the next Bill Gates. Just make them believe they won’t and if they believe they won’t.  Every time I take a walk to town I almost always come across someone who will say because of the youth the country is going nowhere. Why do adults persecute the youth as if everyone at this day and age is engaging in drug abuse or drinking?

I cannot continuously go on and say parents are doing this wrong, mainly because come to think of it we do this to ourselves. Parents cannot randomly start calling us hopeless. Yes we make mistakes, but instead of retaliating we should learn from them because at the end of the day our parents have succeeded and we can’t do everything for ourselves. Think of it this way, what good does it do if we get back at our parents by harming ourselves. It just goes to show how much our parents care about us.

It is safer for a young person to take their parents’ advice to heart rather than react. At this point in time we are the cause of our own country’s demise. Government now has to invest money into making centres where the youth can be rehabilitated. If we become a liability how then can we make this country a First World country? I honestly believe that Vision 2022 is not far-fetched, it will not come to pass, however, if we’re continuously dragged instead of us pushing adults forward.

It is safer for everyone to find fresh ground where adults and the youth can decide on a way forward because at the end of the day it is us Swazis holding us back.
For the sake of our great nation parents should refrain from making their children feel worthless and the youth should refrain from retaliating. Yet again, that is only my view.

Londizwi Dlamini
Sifundzani  pupil

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