Violence in playgrounds is increasing. However, it is important that parents should teach children not to hit back at bullies.
In today's society,
violence
among children
seems to be increasing and with it comes the issue of bullying and teasing in playgrounds. This
essay will discuss whether or not parents
should be teaching their children
to use violence
as a defence mechanism and what are the outcomes of the two scenarios.
Firstly
, many people believe that violence
is only ever dealt with violence
, therefore
, parents
tend to teach their kids defence mechanisms that are based on violent actions, such
as hitting back when hit or talked badly to. However
, there is evidence found in research that points out that violence
creates more violence
, meaning that the violent behaviour put into a child's mind, even if just to protect them, grows into more violence
allowing them to use it more often. Take the series Cobra Kai, for example
, where the character Kenny, who suffered bullying from his peers for months goes into karate training, learning a variety of violent moves, later he uses those moves to sand up to his bullies, hurting them, however
, using violence
becomes Kenny's strength allowing him to become the bully, now always hurting the people who used to hurt him.
Another way
to carry out problems such
as bullying, which I might consider the better way
, is through the non-violent approach. Looking at this
issue in the long term, cases where parents
support and teach their children
anti-violent ways to deal with their emotions and frustrations,parents
support and teach their children
anti-violent ways to deal with their emotions and frustrations are more likely to be successful and stop the bullies and violent acts from others. As mentioned earlier, violence
creates more violence
, therefore
, a non-violent encouraged upbringing will most likely raise children
to discover other ways to solve conflict when encountered, as well as allow them to grow into adults who will act rationally when put into difficult situations.
In conclusion, despite there being times when violence
to defend oneself can be justified, non-harmful strategies outweigh any benefit they can bring, since it also
has the negative side of constructing more violence
. In my opinion
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parents
who teach their kids a way
to a life without violent acts are the ones whose way
will have the most significant effect.Submitted by luanafonarantes on
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