Its a tough world for kids ....

Who says childhood days are innocent and carefree ? It is no longer true nowadays.... at least not from what i hear.

Their little world expands once parents start to place them with day-care centers or pre-school or kindergarten. They will be expose to teachers, bullies, and all the likes of them. Kids coming back from school with bruises on both body and heart are so common that it is scary.

How would you teach your kids ?

a) Would you tell them .... dont fight for toys with other kids, dont argue with the teacher, be a good timid child .... They'll grown up thinking that it is right to let circumstances control them, rather than taking control.

b) Would you teach them karate, judo, taekwondoe at a young age so that they can fend off bullies ? Would you approve and praise them for hitting back at other kids in self defense ?

A parent that I know teaches his 3-year old daughter this an-eye-for-an-eye policy
"Thou should not hit others first. But if they hit you first, you must hit them back"

Was that too drastic, or was that a necessity to teach our kids the survival skills ?