that we learn from errors power play children who offer bribes lack confidence and seek social acceptance while children who accept them love power and status prabhu explains a boy i know is exploited by his classmates into doing their homework failing which they threaten to drop him from their group he complies to maintain his friendship because he seeks company from exchanging toys on conditions to bribing the building watchman children take their first bite at bribery quite unknowingly not nipping this in the bud may lead to faulty individuals prabhu cites an instance of a boy she has known for seven years when he was 14 he was academically weak and lacked confidence his rich father was wellknown for being corrupt this boy had a peculiar habit of pocketing anything that he could lay his hands on just for fun anything can be mine was his attitude seven years on he has managed to get admission into a leading college now he brags hum kisiko bhi shendi laga sakte hain his fathers morals have heavily influenced the man he has become recently foreign newspapers ran stories commenting on the deteriorating quality of parenting prabhu fears it is the same for mumbais parents just bringing a child into this world isnt sufficient a child has to leave footprints behind and the onus is on you to ensure that those footprints should be worth it in the end it is only your responsibility that the child is corrupt or not nobody elses build character point out whats right whats wrong and whats expected the child especially in the early years takes the parents word as gospel rewards are more effective than punishment the younger the child the truer this holds avoid saying i heard this about you from xyz this indicates that you dont trust your child screen outside influences that might corrupt your children anandhollatimesgroupcom