An insight from the millennial.

The kids are very dark beyond their age.

They made us gagged ,gooped and gasped.

Extreme bullying, rape and murder are common happenings in school nowadays

to the horror of our nation.

Ko kenape dik?

It seem the light ain’t shinning through.

The school is no longer the safe place the second home for them to prepare themselves into adulthood .

Now some might not even make it past the high school.

The road to adulthood is hard where many are lost in findings themselves but should never to a point of becoming criminals.

We as society have failed the children.

We are screwed.

What did we do wrong?

I personally think it goes back to what happened at home.

Home sweet home but for some unfortunately the hell on earth.

Huge responsibility lies on the parents as theoretically the kids spending most of their time at home.

We have the opportunity to make it right every time we are with them.

Realistically the school the teachers can only do so much.

Do we loved them?

Do we care about them?

Do we even talk to them?

Good parenting doesn't always guarantee good children but bad parenting is likely to destroy them.

Love them enough so they understand the beautiful language of love and compassion.

Majority are busy working parents and understandably time is a problem but one could argue if they are important enough that we will prioritise and make time for them regardless of how busy we are.

After all, they are our treasures.

The future.

I don’t have children but I was a child.

When I was heavily bullied in boarding school, what I wanted the most was somebody that I could talk to which I had hoped come from my parents.

I only had myself.

The children they need protection.

CCTV and personality classes recommended by ministers are reasonable but another very important consideration is to ban smartphone use and social media for those under 13 and preferably those under 17 years of age as well.

What do the minors need fancy phones for?

Smartphone use with parental supervision isn't going to work as the parents themselves could do with bit of the supervision as well.

As mellenial , we didn’t have smartphone and social media back then and the climate was a lot calmer.

Social media is harming us and more so to the children. Its our duty to protect and safeguard them from the dark side of the social media. A lots of misinformations, negative and fake contents, cyber bullying, violence and porn easily accessible online. Social media aren’t real life depiction with questionable heavily manufactured contents leading to false idea and outlook on life. The minors also lack the capacity and maturity to handle the AI powered social media where malicious acts such as brainwashing and deepfakes are thriving. Australia enacted the law prohibiting minors from using social media and the Danish empowered their citizen with protective law against deepfake. We surely have to be as proactive and protective.

Take the lessons from us the millennial who lived through the peak of social media and now coming to term and living with the mess.

To the young Gen Z , let go the phones and the social media because yes we care.