What are we doing to our children?

Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com

Everybody these days know that most of what the children learn from their parents and colleagues is from mimicking their movements. And this happens not only at early ages. Even as adults, independents as we are, we mimick the big stars, either their look, or their way of behaving.

And even knowing this, we keep asking ourselves why the world is not yet a better place. The answer is one of the following: either we choose to mimick the wrong acts of people around or we are the ones that keep doing the wrong things to be mimicked around by the others.

Why don't we try to mimick the right actions of the right people for a change? Or try to do the right thing to be mimicked by others?

Reading some news the other day, I found that this mimick thing was taken a step further. Well, not too further, but to make cimpanzees mimick our bad habits is like teaching kids the wrong things when they are very small. They will carry the burden of vice or mistreatments for the rest of their lives.

I'll copy here the beginning of the article: "A South African zoo is trying to persuade its star chimpanzee to kick a bad smoking habit".

To invite others to share your vice is the worst kind of vice around.

Be healthy. Think right.

Ah, and by the way, the picture of the smoking chimpanzee is not an actual photo. It was treated by some image processing software. I got it at the internet.