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The recent shooting incident involving two teenage boys killing their own classmate has come really as a rude awakening to many of us. The incident, I suppose, is the first of its kind in India. We have come across such shooting incidents taking place in schools and colleges in countries like USA etc. In my view, this incident is the direct fallout of poor parenting skills. Parents instead of giving out verbal advice on how their wards behave should adopt a very effective parenting technique, in my words, called ‘set-oneself-the-example’. In other words, if you do not want your children to lie, you do not lie and if you do not want them to quarrel, you do not quarrel with your spouse or children. Violence has become an indispensable ingredient in any movie, video game, or cartoon. Watching them will only reinforce the animal instinct of harming the other to settle difference. It is rather obsolete to say the future of our country lies in the hands younger generation. To be exact, it lies in the hands of young parents who have children less than five years of age. Child psychologists say the first five years in the life of a child is very important since all its strengths and weaknesses are formed in this period. These aspects only get reinforced when the child is subjected to good or bad stimuli leaving no scope for improvement.

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