Traditions... how I despise this word and the connotation that it is associated with. Even more so, I despise the people who use this word loosely and hang it by their mouth. I feel that tradition is a poor parental excuse to make themselves look right and others (the child) look wrong.

Fuck you understand?

In this age, when technology is so advanced, where everything is so progressive and modern, the adults never fail to be so immature and dumb.

Despite all the claims about Singapore being a First World country and stuff, I think it's shit. How can you call a country a First World country when its citizens don't act like one? Do the adults use the word tradition and "because I am your mum/dad" just to shut the children up in an argument even when they are the ones in the wrong? Must such pride be kept? And for whatever reason?

No wonder many still consider Singapore a Second World country; the people (parents), maybe not the entire population of parents but still a sizeable proportion of them, hang on to such small pathetic egoistical pride that has no benefits whatsoever. So what if you shut your child up? Does it mean you can go brag to your dumb group of kakis/friends, "Eh yesterday hor my boy/girl argue with me lehs...I just say one word/sentence then they diam diam le. zai right?"

Fuck you understand?

In spite of all the knowledge we picked up in school, we failed to pick up, as well as inculcate, the proper social values to adults, let alone the children. It does not make a difference if we were to tell the kids to always listen to their parents and never argue back, when the parents themselves are doing the damage to their children. Recently I read a book by Mitch Albom, called "Five people you meet in heaven". In this book, i found a sentence so true and it goes: All parents damage their children.

Thinking about it, won't you agree so? Using all the verbal abuse, physical abuse and mental abuse, do you think it will help our children, our future leaders and the hope of the next generation to become adults who not only have critical thinking abilities, numerous talents yet at the same time, have a compassionate and forgiving character?

not one bit, i say. If we want to progress forward as a First World nation, one of the important things to do would be that the local adults/parents learn from their Western counterparts and know how to act like a civilized person and not some barbaric and demanding little piece of shit.