For our children...

A country that treats its children worse than its sewage has its priorities topsy-turvy in my not-so-humble opinion. What is the purpose of producing so many children every year if a large percentage of those very children have no access to food, healthcare or education? Why do we have children if we cannot keep them safe from abuse? Why do we allow maids, drivers and assorted paid ‘caregivers’ complete responsibility over infants and small children who cannot possibly be in a position to tell on them? Why do we allow demented losers who could never in a million years get a job in any other capacity to teach our children?

We do all this and more because as a nation we consider our children dispensable. The number of children as young as eight committing suicide by hanging is growing. How does such a young child even know about how to go about hanging himself or herself? Has Google’s penetration become so widespread that even little children can go online and find a self-help video on hanging? Why is the first resort after being chastised for low marks to go and off oneself? There is a tremendous lack of character as far as one can see. If you cannot take a failed test in your stride, how do you expect to deal with death, disease, random cruelty, natural catastrophe or any other tragedy worth its name?

The government would rather waste untold amounts of money thanks to the basest kind of corruption than earmark it in an enforceable manner on education. There are piles of funds lying in odd departments for the education of special needs children but who has access to it? Where is the framework to enforce implementation of RTE which would prevent people like us going abegging to even low-grade schools in a bid to seek inclusion for our children? The complacency of the idiots in charge appals me. One day when autism is at their door and they cannot ignore it for if not their children, their grandchildren will certainly be afflicted, where will these characters go? If there is no infrastructure to teach these children now, what will happen in twenty years’ time when 1 in 150 grows to 1 in 80? All those superior folk out there who think its great to abuse and discriminate against children whose only fault is a neuro-developmental disorder of no certifiable cause need to be decimated as intolerance is one of the evils that can pollute entire generations.

Treat every child equally. Pay attention to the child’s needs. Stop teaching them to be selfish for selfishness needs to be taught if it is as rampant as I see it today. Stop making them intolerant. Stop getting them used to instant gratification. Stop praising them ridiculously for achievements they have not attained yet. Stop telling them that they are entitled. Teach them faith. Teach them will power. Teach them kindness. Teach them patience. Teach them generosity. Treat them like they matter. And for God’s sake, listen to them….