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Published: 07:05, 20 November 2016   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Our children are our future

November 20th is celebrated as `Universal Children`s Day`

Mostafizur Rahman Nasim: Life is becoming fast along with the development of modern technology. Gradually, the general people are being alert about their basic rights and other facilities across the world.

But, unfortunately, a large number of children are facing some troubles due to the modern life.

Since children’s brains are still developing, they cannot adjust – as full-grown adults can – to the effects of ever more rapid technological and cultural changes.

They still need what developing human being have always needed, including real food (as opposed to processed “junk”), real play (as opposed to sedentary, screen-based entertainment), first-hand experience of the world they live in and regular interaction with the real-life significant adults in their lives.

 

 

They also need time. In a fast-moving hyper-competitive culture, today’s children are expected to cope with an ever-earlier start to formal schoolwork and an overly academic test-driven primary curriculum. They are pushed by market forces to act and dress like mini-adults and exposed via the electronic media to material which would have been considered unsuitable for children even in the very recent past.

Our society rightly takes great pains to protect children from physical harm, but seems to have lost sight of their emotional and social needs. However, it’s now clear that the mental health of an unacceptable number of children is being unnecessarily compromised, and that this is almost certainly a key factor in the rise of substance abuse, violence and self-harm amongst our young people.

This is a complex socio-cultural problem to which there is no simple solution, but a sensible first step would be to encourage parents and policy-makers to start talking about ways of improving children’s well-being.

There is no doubt that steps should be taken for the sake of our future generation.

Click here to listen a song on Children penned by renowned lyricist Mahbubul A Khalid.

By resolution 836(IX) of 14 December 1954, the General Assembly recommended that all countries institute a Universal Children's Day, to be observed as a day of worldwide fraternity and understanding between children.

It recommended that the Day was to be observed also as a day of activity devoted to promoting the ideals and objectives of the Charter and the welfare of the children of the world. The Assembly suggested to governments that the Day be observed on the date and in the way which each considers appropriate.

The date 20 November marks the day on which the Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, in 1959, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in 1989.

 

 

A terrifying 40 per cent rise in children’s cancer is being blamed on modern life.

Experts warned of a cancer “epidemic” and identified fast food, computer tablets, mobile phones, car emissions and cleaning agents as contributing factors.

The huge rise – revealed in Child Cancer Awareness Month – means that 1,300 more children are affected each year.

The children are our future. So, adult or aged people should be alert for their shinny future. There are lots of barriers on the way of safe and healthy life of the future generation. Awareness’ and responsibility of guardians can play a vital role. We should keep it mind that food and cloths is not everything for the children.

 

risingbd/DHAKA/ 20 Nov 2016/Augustin Sujan

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