>>12340165I have no doubt that this is true, but then again, I think trying to explain the negative consequences of actions like why they shouldn't cross roads without first looking both ways or why they shouldn't skip classes would be very difficult for them to actually internalize without having very concrete examples examples of those negative consequences.
In many cases I don't think trying to reason with them would work that well, since they might just end up doing what they want rather than what they should do (this makes me recall that one year I dropped out of high school two weeks after classes had started and became a NEET despite the fact that my father had tried telling me many times about how not studying would just lead to me either becoming a hobo or getting a really shitty job).
Even though I don't think violence is the answer to things, I think talking to kids might probably not be that likely to convince them either.
Maybe I should show them videos of people living in shantytowns in India where people have infected eyes because they live next to literal trash mounds and drink shitty river water and videos of hobos getting run over by cars.
