Parental Guidance: What Happened, Parents?

What happened? I only asked when I spotted some children still having fun in the middle of the street late at night. Why do they let their child play even though it is now time to sleep or be inside their home? Instead of securing those children to avoid things, it feels more convenient for them to let these children play. Do they don't watch the news? Do they don't feel the danger possibly comes to their children? Or does they don't have any care? I don't know, but I think it's not just teenager who becomes wild these days, but also parents.

Last night as I went out, I think it was 10 PM, going to the store and buying something I needed. I was surprised that the street was still busy with many children playing and hanging with each other. They were this loud that they were talking, others were screaming, and some were laughing like they didn't feel tired. Seriously, what is happening? Do these children know their times, the curfew and everything?

When I was young, my parent was strict as they wanted us six in the evening we shall be inside the home, one of the reasons that they talk is the story of a ghost that eat children, and many things similar to the supernatural as we lived still in a remote area, there was NO street lights and everything.

They were this strict that when they found out that I was not still inside and nowhere to be found, they would look at me with some belt they held. No other questions about why I am late one smash made me run home though still, it's 6 PM. Somehow as a child like me, I was not too fond of that. I wanted to play more with my friends.

Sometimes I was forced to go home for my playmates was the one that been scolded by their parents, and the life of children back in my time was something but living in strict ways, but later I learned that it was for the good sake of them. As I matured, I also wanted that to happen with my niece and nephew for their safety.

The night wasn't safe anymore, though we were not living the same lifestyle of street dwellers I had also been in my teenage life. It's not safe that children under ten still play and have fun, the worst side was they were still ladies at much younger ages, yet they hung with people under the night somewhere, and some were opposite of their gender and ages. I am not gendered stereotyped, but thinking about what will be possible things happen made me question the word PARENTAL GUIDANCE.

The news was spread to social media, not just on television, for I know most people nowadays aren't fond of viewing and listening to a newscast in the early evening and at dinner. Some are molested, and others are murdered with careless actions of force. Teenage pregnancy and rapes, the violation of riots of most small gangs in the streets, and other crimes related to children. Still, they let the child goes to the road in the middle of the night.

Well, I guessed it was now normal for teenagers 18 plus of age, for I have also been in that position in the past, but it was absurd that legalising so much younger.

That's why some parents loved the "curfew" when covid19 struck last 2020. Rounding local martial was on duty to let no one in the street under the night watch. But now, as the cases become none, some martial are not minding to look around at night anymore; they are just sitting and doing nothing.

Is the kind of old discipline not a normal thing in this day, is the kind of action of responsibility become none in this generation, the items were adopting and making it routine. Parents don't mind if their child goes home or not. Parents won't watch if they will sneak off.

What is happening, parents? Are you just letting your child plays in the dark? Does worried that they will be close to danger or be in the wrong hands, peer pressure and addictions? Does letting them go more convenient for you don't have any problem with noise at home? What if there will be times when you won't hear a voice from them, for they have been gone for good, does this affordable side? I don't understand other parents sometimes.

I spot some children who had an over-protected parent when they were young, yet they just let them today.

Maybe they sneaked out for that was late at night, and their parents were tired, but why did it happen just like every night? They were laughing and having fun in the darkness of the street, and some might have been dating or being with their boyfriends and girlfriend. I wished that parents or any guardian they had could be woken up, that their children may not be in their conscious having something or they knew and allowed might have some angels talk to their dreams of the harmful things that might happen to their beloved children.

I hope so, for I am worried about those children and how many children will influence more. I don't want that to happen to my niece and nephew; I also don't want another child to occur in their life.

What happened, parents and dear future parents, don't be like them. Protect our children at any cost, they are still young, and the future depends on how we discipline and educate them.

Thanks for reading.