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accept all circumstances whole-heartedly. A child's thought process and vision are as fluid as water. There is a good rhyme for water in Hindi:
Water! hi water!
What is thy colour ?
Just mix in it,
that becomes my colour !
An alert parent has to see the impact of toys given during child-hood and games played with them, on children's psyche and development. Two things have a very great impact on a child's psyche :
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Literature given to them through books and magazines and company of other kids.
2. Television serials and images and internet.
Especially in the present context, you have to ensure that the print and broad-casting media do not create a negative impact on their psyche. Parents need to think of the impact of obscene literature and colourful news-paper supplements with equally obscene images on their child's psychology.
Indecent literature will only lower the humanitarian stature of children and do no good except bringing their downfall. Reports of culprits involved with rape and other cases in America have stated that "86% of the culprits were addicted to obscene literature and most of them had admitted that the desire to emulate the scenes mentioned in such obscene books was the major motive behind committing such heinous crimes"
Today children learn more from television than from their parents and friends. In the first fifteen years of his life,
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