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Have you ever seen kids going around the steel pole in the MRT train or playing with the salt and pepper shaker while you're catching up with an ex-classmate you met in a cafe? What should parents do? Create rules along the way? Give them something else to do to distract them? Threaten them with punishment? What do we do during these moments?
Studies in the recent years have show that in general, a person matures at the age of 30 +/-. To understand maturity, one has to know how the brain works. Psychologists have determined that there are two parts of the brain that affects maturity; the emotional centre and the intellectual centre. Maturity in a person is achieved when the connection between the emotional centre (EC) and intellectual centre (IC) is formed. Children and teenagers make the majority of their decisions based on emotion instead of reason. They do things based on "I feel a need to do so" rather than "I know I should or should not do so". Something I'll always ask a person around my age whenever a topic such as this is brought up is "At what age did you begin to make right choices?" There will always be a look of deep thought on their faces. Then a smile of agreement mixed with embarrassment follows when I answer for them "Only recently as an adult, right?" Adults don't realise that they themselves start making right choices only in adulthood because they learned through their experiences. Yet, children, especially teenagers, are penalised for making wrong choices. Doesn't this make us realize that raising children is not just feeding them and providing them with a good education? How our children turn out is hugely dependent on the coaching and nurturing they receive in their childhood. Between the ages of 6 to 12, the brain develops new connections for a new phase of learning, not just in the area academics but more importantly, they begin to learn more about themselves; who they are individually and socially. This is a time when character building begins.