Moral Lessons: Killing is wrong
My sister drove me to get some stock for our father, whilst in the car I got somewhat irritated by my 5 year old nephew talking about killing people. He is still young and innocent, and lessons like moral values I feel need to be taught early. Although my father never spent a huge amount of time with me as a child, he was always insistent on being able to defend yourself but never to attack people or pick fights. Something which my nephew doesn't really have, his father unfortunately doesn't see the same moral values as my own father and family. So it's common for my nephew to use things and see things which in another world would be intolerable to my family. My father is often blinded by his love for his grandson that he is reluctant to teach the same lessons he taught me. I find it infuriating that I am drawn into the upbringing of my nephew especially on this issue of killing.
Killing in my view is never justified even within self defence or defence of those that you love. Although I am not a religious in the traditional sense, I grew up valuing human life. Something which I am afraid my nephew doesn't appreciate. Perhaps it is too much TV, too many computer games which are inappropriate for someone of his age. I don't know, I feel my nephew is being heavily influenced by his half brothers. Who in general on the surface seem well behaved kids, but the way they talk in trying to be cool and 'ard. These aren't things my sister can control, and she has no real influence over her son's half brothers. The relationship between my nephews parents adds undoubtedly to the difficulty of raising my nephew.
Yet perhaps in frustration or irritance I sternly told my nephew, killing is wrong, any killing is wrong. He talked about TV and about killing. My opinions formed right there and then, some games he is playing are far too inappropriate for his age. Some of the TV dealing with violence are inappropriate for him. EVen at the age of 5 he has become insensitive to the rights and wrongs of life and death in particular violence of hitting people and killing people. I am troubled by this and the influences that exert their forces on my nephew. I can only place what faith I have in my sister bringing up her son right.
Perhaps it is one thing, though many of my friends will say I'm opinionated and in some senses too moral. I grew up watching cartoons, like He-Man and Spiderman. Spiderman had a common saying "with great power, comes great responsibility". I remember a program talking about 80s cartoons in the UK, and the person in charge of acquisitions for the BBC said they turned down He-Man because it in her view "too moral". I know my nephew had taken to watching the thundercats, another cartoon I grew up with, but I wonder if He-Man could help with this concern as in the indirect way it helped form the opinions I have today.
Killing in my view is never justified even within self defence or defence of those that you love. Although I am not a religious in the traditional sense, I grew up valuing human life. Something which I am afraid my nephew doesn't appreciate. Perhaps it is too much TV, too many computer games which are inappropriate for someone of his age. I don't know, I feel my nephew is being heavily influenced by his half brothers. Who in general on the surface seem well behaved kids, but the way they talk in trying to be cool and 'ard. These aren't things my sister can control, and she has no real influence over her son's half brothers. The relationship between my nephews parents adds undoubtedly to the difficulty of raising my nephew.
Yet perhaps in frustration or irritance I sternly told my nephew, killing is wrong, any killing is wrong. He talked about TV and about killing. My opinions formed right there and then, some games he is playing are far too inappropriate for his age. Some of the TV dealing with violence are inappropriate for him. EVen at the age of 5 he has become insensitive to the rights and wrongs of life and death in particular violence of hitting people and killing people. I am troubled by this and the influences that exert their forces on my nephew. I can only place what faith I have in my sister bringing up her son right.
Perhaps it is one thing, though many of my friends will say I'm opinionated and in some senses too moral. I grew up watching cartoons, like He-Man and Spiderman. Spiderman had a common saying "with great power, comes great responsibility". I remember a program talking about 80s cartoons in the UK, and the person in charge of acquisitions for the BBC said they turned down He-Man because it in her view "too moral". I know my nephew had taken to watching the thundercats, another cartoon I grew up with, but I wonder if He-Man could help with this concern as in the indirect way it helped form the opinions I have today.