Quality vs Quantity
Yesterday afternoon, while I was playing with Darrius in the room, my nephew was sleeping in the next room and my mom was frying some fish in the kitchen, we have an intruder coming into our house. We always lock our main gate outside and we padlocked our main door so it really puzzled us how the intruder came in.
I was there (I closed the room door as Darrius was talking non stop and worried he might wake my nephew up) and yet I could not hear the boy opening the door. He was half way in the living room when my mom caught a glimpse of him so she rushed out. I came out when I heard the commotion in the living room.
This boy about 12 yo, who is living a few doors away came into our house…. intentionally or unintentionally. When my mom questioned him as why he came in, he said he came to retrieve his foam aeroplane. My mom was not convinced as why he needs to come into the house first before notifying us that he needs to retrieve his plane? We have door bell. He told my mom that he saw the door unlocked and thought no one is at home so he came in. Lame excuse? The padlock was on the floor then.
When my mom continue to prob him, he kept saying he did not steal anything. Don’t that shows he was having the intention to steal? In fact, in the past he stole from my dad’s car which was parked outside. And I heard from my mom he was bashed up by another neighbor for stealing from their cars parked outside the house. And if you pass by his house, you can see a lot of junks (bicycles, bicycles parts and all kinds of rubbish) in their front porch. According to my parents, most of the stuff were stolen goods.
Their house look like a slump. This boy has at least another 4-5 siblings. Apparently the parents do not care about their children. These kids roam about the neighborhood even though they are very young (I saw one about Darrius’s age).
I asked my dad why they want to have so many kids when they can’t even take care of them? I think these parents have failed in their responsibilities as parents. They don’t have the money and time and yet want to bring so many souls into this world.
Thus my dad told me, when you have quantity, you may not have the quality…. True?
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true , most of the time quality doesn’t come with quantity! :> heheh that’s why i totally agree on having lesser kid/s but giving them the best!
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well, not exactly true if those kids have responsible parents to begin with!
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true la, want quality we have to spend more time to a child. So 24 hrs perday not enough to bahagi loh. LOL
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beg to differ, leh, dearie. depends on how the parents bring up the kids. although i must admit nowadays is not like before
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True for me that’s why we are stopping at 2:)
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I agree with giddy tigress…having more doesn’t mean the quality will drop. Gosh, what will our grandparents do back then, eh? My grandparents have 8 kids and everyone turned out well. If the parents are not responsible, how will they raise a good citizen? For these kids in your neighborhood, I strongly suggest to call the social services to check on this family. If this kid steals at such a young age, heaven knows, how he will turn out when he’s older. Early prevention is needed.
I think the same way as Giddy T, AllThingsPurple and Vien above
My Ahma raised 11 kids on her own and all my uncles and aunts turned out OK. I know many families like that too…
And also many families with 1 or 2 kids only but with many, many problems.
Remember that I used to teach? I am surprised again and again when what I see is not what I get in class.
It all really depends on the parents!
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Well… in fact my father and mother both has 8 and 7 siblings respectively and they all turned out well too even they don’t come from well to do families.
What really dismay me is the fact that more parents/adults are getting more irresponsible these days. What is happening to our society???
What has caused these to happen??? Who shall we blame?
How I wish we can have a better place/world to live in…