This has something to do with kid's perception achieved in their early ages. Naturally, kids in their early ages have lots of interest in exploring, trying and testing new things. They see the world as their playground. The problem is usually starts here. If the activities are solely meaningless playing game, nothing will come into their brain. Agreed, healthy kids always possess active habits. However, if the activities are merely a joy that waste of their times, they will certainly gain nothing for their future. Moreover, this early activities will accumulate and forms their habits.

As the kids grow older and get into their puberty, they face another issue due to the lack of skills in learning and positive activities. At this ages, the kids usually searches for identities. They search for
acceptance in their society. Some of them often search for popularities. This situation is good for kids that has enough potentials. For examples, children who exell in school will get more popularities and they will be more motivated to do better in school. Similarly, children who do well in sport, will be more motivated to do even better performance as they realize that the activities drive more acceptance in their society. The society itself must certainly be a good society that values positive attitude toward the kids success. The puberty is certainly bad for kids who have no potential to be developed. They will be bound
to always conduct negative activities to gain their identities. They also tend to develop their own society which accept their inabilities to gain their success in life. The society will perpetuate their inabilities and create juveniles. In the long run, they will grow into adults which can not compete to find descent jobs. If they have their own children, their children will most likely to have a bad attitude toward success in life.

We must go together in preventing or breaking the perpetual bad kids development. However parents play
a bigger role. They have to take more responsibility as kids see their parents more than anybody else. The parents should try to set good habits of their kids starting from their early ages. Setting good habits
are easy if the parents themselves also have good habits. Try to find good neighborhood for the kids. Afterall, children learns more from their nearby environment (including the family) rather than from elsewhere.

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