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Youth boredomDefinition of boredom
"Boring sia.." This term seems to be very popular among youths nowadays. It may sound harmless, but have you ever wondered what it can lead us to? Well, there are things that might sound impossible.
When they lack momentum or leisure skills, the youths tend to get bored, as it is common for everybody to get bored when they suffer from lack of interesting things to do, hear or see.
The common boring times to youths are during the evenings of weekdays, when they would be sitting down, doing nothing or watching television. Sundays are also considered as boring times, because there is nothing to do, no where to go and no friends around.
Consequences of youth boredom
These youths are not just any ordinary bored people. They seem to turn to detrimental behaviours to overcome their boredom; pre-marital sex, running away from home, truancies, drugs or alcohol usage, under age smoking, self-abuse, piercing, tattoos, delinquencies and etceteras... This can lead to social isolation, domestic violence or even sexual abuse.
Why are they bored?
Some parents restrict leisure opportunities because they want to protect their youths from from negative influences of the outside world, without realizing that it is causing rebellious attitude to develop in them. It is also said that the communities offer limited recreational activities. This leaves the youths to not have enough social and recreational activities.
There are more reasons why youths get bored. No privacy may also be one of it. Youths want privacy because they feel as if they are growing older where they want to be independent and they just cannot stand parents intruding in their each and every activity. They have no where else to escape from the intrusions of parents and certain people who they feel uncomfortable with. Therefore they decide to turn to the detrimental behaviours stated above.
Family breakdown may be one of the reasons too. There would be discordance present where they might just get sick and tired of disagreement. When a home becomes a place where they no longer feel at home, they tend to go out to find things to do or maybe to see their friends. Here is when negative peer pressure plays a part in influencing them to the detrimental behaviours.
Solutions to youth boredom
To prevent all these, Singapore has set up organizations to deal with these bored youths. There are societies like YMCA, YWMA and etceteras. In the government schools, students who always create trouble are sent for counselling sessions to correct their behaviour. The government has also come up with new rules that youths are restricted to stay out after 11 pm. The government claims that this restriction would prevent youths from delinquencies.
There is an organization named Youthopia, which organizes activities such as; Anti drugs sports carnival, performances by youths or even local bands and many more. It also provides a Youth Centre where magazines, books, resource and research materials, informational brochures and event flyers to keep them updated, conductive meeting rooms and internet stations are available. They have also set up a youth park where the youths can just settle there whenever they feel bored; they do not have to turn to the delinquencies to overcome their boredom.
From our point of view
As youths, we strongly encourage the youths out there to do community service; cleaning up the old folks' homes, talkingto the elderly about their pasts, sing and dance along with them happily. In this way, they can have peaceful and harmless pastimes. They should have a clear mindset, reminding themselves of the phrase, " Choices have consequences".
Lastly, we would like to advise all the youths out there to have principles to follow in life. This would prevent them from going astray whenever they feel bored. Reading anger management or teenage problems books would help them to understad their problems better, as well as improve their English. Finally, we would like to say, "Youths, think before you act!" 引用通告此日志的引用通告 URL 是： http://screweduplife1990.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!D18EC56487B0F75A!142.trak 引用此项的网络日志
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