I don't think we can put the whole problem of child behaviour on the shoulders of the parents alone. There's been many a child from a good family who's been led astray by peer pressure and, then again, some children seem to have just been born plain wicked. It?s easy to assume that a very young child wouldn?t have any badness in them, but I?ve seen lovely parents with a very good natured son having another little son who was an absolute misfit. How could they get it right with one son, but so wrong with another?

True, in many cases, there is an element of blame where the parents just can't be bothered or don't make the time to correct them. Some parents, particularly fathers, don't see any harm when little Johnny is beating the cr@p out of another child and it's looked upon as 'taking care of himself'. I've even heard words of encouragement to a child to this effect or enticement to steal something and, of course, the child grows up thinking this is normal behaviour. A child should be told what?s wrongful behaviour and why it?s wrong, so that he/she fully understands the situation and can make future judgements based on this information.

This is a subject that has been discussed previously here at great length, for those that haven?t caught up with it yet.