Re: I don’t want my kids growing up in Pakistan…
Sensitivity threshold seems to have gone really low !
ok for those who don’t want their kids to be raised in Pakistan .. would these things be of a concern to you?
schooling - I have heard there’s a lot of bullying, racial prejudice and crime in the local schools in the west (Brit, US etc) esp against Muslims these days
Bullying doesn’t happen in schools in Pakistan? Children bully other children all over the world. It isn’t some phenomenon limited to the west.***
Islamic values - true you can keep trying to teach these at home but what about the stuff these children learn from school (which goes against our religion)
Are Pakistani kids all very kind-hearted and God-fearing? They don’t ever lie/cheat/backbite or treat others poorly? None of them date? Achi tarbiyat kahi bhi di ja sakti hai. It all depends on the efforts of the parents.***
Urdu - it is our language after all .. somehow the kids I have seen here can barely speak a word of Urdu
Valid point. Parents in the west have to put in extra effort and encourage their children to converse in urdu.***
Cultural values : how do you manage to keep alive the cultural traditions and values in your children living in a total western society
Parental upbringing. Live traditionally at home.***
Filtering the right aomunt of information at the right time - sex education is provided in these schools at a very younge age …girls get into these problems since their early teenage..drug culture is predominant too! the general concept about sex is : do it but with precautions
***Ummm…it is? :S 12 or 13 isn’t too early to learn about puberty. That’s what they taught in school when I was at that age.
I’m not quite sure how common substance abuse is among high-schoolers but it wasn’t done at the middle school level. Atleast not at my school. :no:
peer pressure, psychological stress blackmail, sexting, esp for the young teenage girls (who think their social suicide would be there if they don’t go to these dance parties, proms, co-ed trips etc etc
If you’re that worried about your child getting into all sorts of nonsense, pull them out of school and homeschool them. Or send them to an Islamic school. Or you could-you know BE A PARENT and-teach them to tell the difference between right and wrong…monitor who their friends are and where they go…not let them run loose and about without ever checking up on them. The mistake desi parents in the West seem to make is giving their children too much free reign without reason.***
again am not saying every kid I see is compleltely kharab…but I do think parents would have to make an extra effort to resolve these concerns
True.
My main concerns about living in Pakistan are bomb blasts and general lawlessness on the streets. Unless, you’re very well-off, the lifestyle and standard of living isn’t that great.