A neighbor complains about children in the estate. “It’s not their fault, it’s their parents who don’t raise them” [LIST DO REDAKCJI]

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Mrs. Marta wrote to the editorial office of nazwa.gazeta.pl (name for editorial information) from Katowice, because she decided to share with our readers her thoughts about the children and youth she observes in her surroundings. “I don’t want it to sound like an old lady complaining about young people, because that’s how it was and will be,” she begins her message. “Because it’s not entirely their fault, it’s their parents who don’t raise them,” he adds.

The woman does not blame children and young people

The reader claims that today’s teenagers and even older children, aged 12, 13 and 15, do not say “good morning” to the neighbors they meet. “In a staircase, in an elevator, on the street or at a bus stop. No one greets people they meet anymore. As if it was something bad,” she writes, frustrated. “Or there are situations when a parent walks with a child, greets me politely, and the child doesn’t do anything. I’m neither here nor there,” he adds. “I understand that parents teach their children not to talk to strangers, but they don’t specify that it doesn’t include greeting a neighbor you’ve known for years?”

Mrs. Marta said that the children’s rudeness and lack of good manners were not their fault. After all, for children, certainly up to a certain age, their parents are the greatest authority. And they don’t always greet others either. “They walk around with their heads in phones or headphones in their ears and they don’t see or hear anyone,” writes Mrs. Marta. And if they don’t say “Good morning”, how can we expect this from their children? If they don’t learn it in their first years of life and it doesn’t become a habit, it will be difficult for them to get used to it later,” he adds.

It’s about two words

When considering Mrs. Marta’s statement, it is worth paying attention to the fact that in her youth, neighborly relations looked completely different. People living next to each other knew each other well, so when they met in front of a block of flats or a tenement house, they exchanged a few words because they had common topics. Today, in the modern world, in big cities, people are often anonymous. The neighbors don’t know each other. In the rush of everyday life, they don’t stop to chat, they don’t exchange greetings, they don’t know anything about each other. But even in such a situation, it seems that two words: “Good morning” would be very appropriate.