Entering the Twenty-First Century

Entering the Twenty-First Century

In an English class, a teacher asked a student who was only 10 years old about his dream. He looked at the sky with a sad eye and said to her:

-         I want to have a real life

-         Why?

-         This life does not belong to me. I am to be here and try to study well in English because of my parents’ dream.

-         So, why do you want to do what you don’t like?

-         Because I am a child

Because he is a child, so he has no right to decide anything about his life. “A real life” – a wish which seems all children deserve to be received at birth became too far with many of them. I believe we no longer feel strange with that story, because we can read the same stories on the internet or newspapers every day. So in this writing, I want to mention what the children need when we enter the twenty-first century, especially I also want to give to those who are parents a small message about understanding children.

Nowadays, there are many children who are lacking love and care of parents. Some parents thought that working hard, earning a lot of money and giving them a full life are the best way to show their love. So, they tried their best to work and spent much time to earn a living, but they forgot that they had a family where their children need love more than money. Yes, I do not negate that there were many parents who always gave to their children the wonderful things and only love could help them to do those things. However, if we take time to reflect and ask ourselves that what is the most important thing to children?

Whether money, a famous school, a good cell phone, a beautiful house can replace the position and role of parents in family. If they can make children feel peaceful and happy or give them a firm support to help them overcome the difficulties in this life. Family is the cradle of happiness; is where children always feel safe and peaceful because they believe their parents are always beside them to love and protect in any situation; is where they feel confident to share and talk without fear. But, because of money, many parents left them alone with a computer, a cell phone, a room without love. Some people left home when their children were sleeping, and came back home after they went to bed.

Moreover, some parents wanted their children to make their will, their desire selfishly become true. They forced their children to study many subjects because they wanted them to be intelligent children. Some obliged their children to study whole day at school because they thought school was a safe place and could help them avoid the bad things. Some wanted their children to get high mark because they did not want to be shy with others. Some wanted their children to be at well in English because they believed English could open a new door with a bright future for them. Therefore, they put on the shoulder of their children with a lot of their hope, their will with a reason that they only wanted the best thing to their children.

So, although they are only children, they also have a life and a heart which always wants to be loved and cared. They also have full of happiness and sadness in this life and want somebody to listen and share with them. Moreover, they really want to have happy meals with full of member in the family. It is the happiest things in their life. I believe that they are clearly aware of why their parents have to work hard, have to work whole day, have to leave home very early and come home late and they also love their parents so much. But with them, the most important thing is not money, a beautiful house or a good cell phone, what they need is time of parents. They want to have more time to be beside their parents, have more chance to share, have more concern and receive a real love from parents.