The final edition in that series, published in 1990, is an extended study of the spiritual and religious lives of children. Click here for Dr. Robert Coles' answers to your questions. We live in a multicultural educational community of an international school. People say that it is impossible to raise a moral adolscent in Bangkok. We are worried about how far will be too far.
Aids is rampant as well as alcohol and drug abuse.
While the current generation of students has lived closely with the mass media, particularly television, rock music, and new media technolgies like the Internet, they are convinced that they themselves can resist media influence, even if much of the rest of the society cannot. I will show children how I feel I have been influenced, even manipulated, by television or the movies. This way, I try not to be one more adult separating himself morally from children I try to let them know that this is a shared problem. Today's parents try to be buddies, not mentors. Moreover, we have to exert that authority at certain crucial times.