Recently there's a whole lot of free periods in school because many of our teachers are absent. Me, along with some other classmates that I refuse to say out their names (to avoid getting trouble with the school because I know the teachers read our blogs) were talking about some of the hot topics in school. Labels: topics
Some hot topics are:
1) Sexuality
2) Bi/Homo-sexuality
3) Transvestites
4) Teens leaving home
Today I shall be covering the topic on the one highlighted above: Teens leaving home.
We were reading a Chinese Newspaper called Friday Weekly somedays ago and page 5 actually stunned us - Teens leaving home for stupid reasons.
Case 1: [happened on September 2005]
A 13 year old girl left home because her mum told her to wash her own clothes.
Case 2: [happened on August 2005]
2 girls, age 13 year old and 8 year old stay in the carpark for 3 nights. Their reason for leaving home is because they didn't attend church service and they were afraid of getting chided by their parents.
Case 3: [happened on June 2006]
A 16 year old girl was locked at home because of truancy in school. This girl then jumped off from the 2nd floor to escape from home. She hurt her spinal cord from the jump and had an 8 hour operation.
Based on my CDP lessons knowledge (I'm using Social Studies style of writting! yay!), I know that leaving home is not the solution to problems. Children should sit down and discuss with parents of what they can do to improve the situation instead of running away.
Cases like this also question us about communication between children and parents. Perhaps it's because of the lacking in communication that causes children to resort to such methods to get the message across parents. It may also be the bad influences of teenagers nowadays that caused leaving home a trend. However, we have to bear in mind that parents often play a part in cases like this.
Parents nowadays dont seemed to understand the feelings of the teenager. For example in case 3, parent thought that by locking the child in the house can make the child realise their wrong doings, never did they thought that the child will tried to escape through the window. Maybe the parents dont know what caused the daughter to play truant and might have used the wrong method of dealing with her.
Therefore, I urged every parent and child to talk nicely and communicate more to prevent more cases of teen leaving home.
That's it. ^^
