Parents, Get a grip! and start acting like parents!

The debate on TV stated that school boys are playing way too much video games instead of studying.
And the opposition blame the government for this, or that's what it seems. Because this issue can of course be blamed to our school system?!
Some also says "Well look at S.Korea, they play a lot of video games but they reach high on the polls of studying and good degrees".

Let me laugh at two things.
It's always greener on the other side right!? But take a look, sometimes it's only the light that fools you!

1. It's not up to the schools to ban video games, get them to go to bed, or to get these boys to study better. It's the parents that needs to due their job, be a parent!!
When I was younger, me and my brother could only be on the computer for a certain amount of time.
Why is it that when people are going through a difficult time, they more or less ALWAYS blame the government. But for somehow, isn't that what being an adult is about, to take care of yourself.
If you have a child, then raise him/her, do not expect others to do it for you!!!
Put a password to the computer, lock it in your bedroom before going to bed?! By doing so the child has no other option that to sleep at night!

2. Well, S.Korea might reach very high on those polls. But I can sure tell you, the video game playing boys who spend countless of hours on the computer are not the ones with the highest degrees.
My friends in S.Korea (and Japan and other Asian countries) spend endless of hours in school, extra curriculum classes at private institutions or even have private tutors coming to their houses. And it's all because the parents pay and watch them over.
I kinda feel sad for some of them because all they do is study - read and remember!

An example of a high school student's life in S.Korea.
6.00 Wake up
6.30-45 leave house and go to school
7.30-8.00 Prepare for class and first class begins
15.00 Classes ends
15.30-22.30/23.00 "Self study" in school or attend private institutions or have a tutor over/do homework by him/herself. Self study is to sit in class and do homework or study other material that can be helpful for the upcoming exams to get into university.
23.30-00.00 Come home and go to bed

Does it sound like a happy life?!
High schoolers in Asia have a tough time. BUT the day they have been able to enter the university their parents want and hopefully themselves too they can relax.
Compare to Sweden it's kinda "easy" to attend uni, but hell to get in.
In Sweden I'd rather say it's the opposite. We can enter uni fairly easy, but to graduate can take time!!

Also our ways of studying is completely different.
In Asia it's all about remembering, but really, what's the knowledge in that?
I'd like to credit Swedish school system for the work of "creating".


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So yeah.. Parents out there, GET a grip! and start to control and raise your own child!!
There's a reason why children are children, they don't know better.
For the moment you might be the bad one and get the blame. But what about the future? Isn't a bright future on a long term more important?!