Parents could also help the authorities by letting school teachers and counselors know if they are aware of any misbehavior at home. Many of these children could be living with a lot of trauma and violence at home. Furthermore parents need to have more control over their children and help the authorities by checking backpacks before children leave for school. But this is not always possible for all parents to do because many of them have to go to work early or cannot spend as much time with their children. Even if this is not possible, parents who keep weapons at home should keep them away from the reach of their children.
“Parents should take care about their children, teach them what is good and bad, or what they should do or not; increase their esteem and show them the value of life.” (School Shootings: How to Empower Against Guns) And before these cases happen they should teach their children need to react in these circumstances or emergencies. Researchers have concluded some “symptoms”, or clues, of school shootings; these are not always helpful because school shooters are not always having the same plans and there’s any profile of them. 1. Attackers talk about their plans. They usually talk about their life,
Bullying Bullying is a way to intimidate someone or a way to make someone do what they want a person to do. Bullying is a form of abuse that can be emotional or physical. Victims of bullying usually lose interest in their school work and become depressed and eventually either drop out or commit suicide. People are bullied because of their race, ethnicity, gender, disability, religion, or sexual orientation. According to statistics about one fourth of all students from elementary through high school are victims of bullying.
Later Jones started the research about violent media after pop psychologists said the violent stories are harmful to children. Jones also states two girls as examples to show the affect from the violent media, and these two girls have big improvement in their life. Jones tried to point out violent media may give negative violent idea to child, but it provide a method to learn more about themselves and build up confidence for themselves. In this essay, Jones talked about violent media can also help children grow up in a good way, because it can help them overcome their problem. Jones gave an example about his son, when his son was first grader and all the friends started to climb tree in the school.
Gun violence in the USA Based on the latest events, which would be the recent school shootings, you might think that it is often exposed younger individuals with a missing ability to contain their anger and frustrations that end up with being the cause of gun violence. The children who are re-sponsible for these school shootings are often poor when it comes to social relations. Bad parenting and bullying could be examples to why a child could be stressed and out casted enough to perform such an action as killing other people. When given the possibility these young people can, in the moment of frustration, exploit the law in such a way that it leads to murder, for example through school shooting. One of the main reasons to why such events as school shooting does not appear to happen as often in other countries might be because the USA is the only country with so loose weapon-laws, where it is relatively easy to get your hands on a deadly firearm.
The researcher also was able to group two different kinds of bullying. One kind of bullying is called physical aggression which includes hitting, pushing and any other outward expression of hostility (www.bestsyndication.com). The second type of bullying is called relational aggression which includes teasing, being mean, and ostracizing peers (www.bestsyndication.com). The bullying start from the home because the children see the dad beating on the mom everyday, so they think its okay to go the school and bully other children. As I look back in my lifetime I had two bully who use to come to school and constantly pick on me but the reason why they did me like that because they was jealousy of me.
The structure that the gang gives the kids leads them into bad situations, and violence. The increase of divorce has a huge impact on children, which leads many kids living in bad neighborhoods because the parents can’t afford to live anywhere else. Violence in today’s television and video games, parents that are separated, financial struggles can allow gangs in bad areas to set children up for a violent
Teens are on the news for gang related street brawls and taking guns to school because they are being harassed but when they do positive things, it doesn’t get as much recognition. A troubled teen only wants the attention they are not receiving at home. So if being negative and doing negative thing gets attention, that’s what they are going to do. The question, “how can we help prevent the crime rate within our neighborhood?” is often asked. I believe we should try to become more involved and active within our community.
The two stories contrast in content, but help Jones come to the conclusion that “it’s helped hundreds of people for everyone its hurt” (287). By using these personal stories, Jones makes a valid point in his argument defending the imagination of children and their violent stories. “Violent media is a big issue in the world today.” (285) Society is about the effect of violent media on the upbringing of today’s children. For instance, society has fears that children who are exposed to violent media will grow to be violent people, giving way to a violent society. However, Gerald Jones, in his argument “violent media is good for kids”, says that in contrary to what the society believes, or is made to believe, violent media builds strong, courageous and effective group in the society.
Implementing information in relevance to how kids behave at home. Having a go to person in school is a good alternative as a resource that can be available at school but most suicides are done at home or away from school. In these seminars the parents will learn the red flags to pick up on such as a sudden loss of interest in things they used to enjoy, a change in sleep patterns and how they are doing in school. All these are good indicators to how a child may be battling the struggles of depression and the consideration of suicide begins to hinder. Parents will also be aware of how to keep the home area safe from any easy access to things such as guns as states before.