I will never forget the day when my aunt told me a story about my six year old cousin. There was an incident at school where one kid was bullying another. Turns out that my cousin was the bully. I was shocked. I kept asking my aunt “where do you think she got that attitude from?”. How could a child at such a young age know what bullying is, nonetheless be a bully? When a child is born, they're like a clear canvas and it’s our job as a society to colour it. We can either keep the canvas pure and white or we can darken it by colouring it black. But here’s the thing, once we add that touch of darkness, there’s no way to fix it. You can add as much white paint as you want onto that bit of black, but the canvas will…show more content… So now I have to ask, how in the world did we do such a terrible job with the upcoming generations? We constantly say that the next generation is stupid, lazy, rude, a burden to our society. Yet we’re the generation that helped raise them, the generation that added that blotch of blackness onto their canvas. Children are corrupted not only by intentionally misleading them to badness, but by exposing them to anything that violates the atmosphere of innocence around them and deprives them of their childlikeness. So many of the images to which children are exposed to today on television, the internet, at shopping malls, and at school are all created by adults obsessed with violence, appearance, sex, power, and money. We always talk about wanting the best for the future generations, but how are we helping them by ripping away their innocence and purity. When did we decide as a society that we’ll teach kids how to lie, bully, and cheat at a young age? And when they do one of these acts, we punish them? Why are we punishing them when we should be punished for
