" OUR WORLD IS SICK 5 THINGS WRONG IN OUR SOCIETY TODAY 10% TO STEEMALIVE."

Hello everyone welcome to my blog, I am @nsisongudofia and I am happy to be joining this contest today.

INTRODUCTION
As part of this contest, I have chosen to talk about 5 things wrong with our world today, Yes the world is sick and many things contribute to that but I will be talking about 5 these are:

• Bad parenting
• Deceptive advertisements
• Addicted to technology
• Drug abuse
• Misplaced priorities

BAD PARENTING

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When we see parents what comes to mind? A picture of someone who is there to love, mold, care for, and guide a little cute-looking human being to being the best he could ever be. In our society today though, parenting has become one of the hardest challenges to humans, these could be partly due to changing societal values and norms, which leads many to believe that acting in a certain way is the best, could also be partly to the influence of social media, television, and radio on the population. sometimes bad parenting isn't a choice, but out of pure Ignorance but other times these parents consciously refuse to care for their Child's physical, emotions. psychological and spiritual needs, some physically abuse these children.

What constitutes bad parenting?

• lack of care and affection
• ill-treatment
• lack of discipline
• permissiveness
• over pampering
• bad feeding habits
• bad behavior and practicing bad morals in front of a child
• child labor

Why does bad parenting occur?

• lack of time for the child or children, in this case, the parents are hardly around to cater to their children this could be due to engagement at work, frustrations, purposefully trying to run from parental duty, etc. when this happens children are denied love, discipline, and care.
• Bad advice and tips, this could come from social media, parents, friends, and books.
• Environment and Economic status poor environment or social status could cause parents to be too hard o their children often out of frustration but on the other hand, too much wealth could cause the parent to overindulge a child. try to cover up for his mistakes which leads to spoiling the child.

My experience:
Well, I have lived close to a parent who constantly illtreats his son in the name of discipline, I have also seen parents who expose their children to violent cartoons and buy them play guns in the name of entertainment and what the child likes, the question is is it what the child needs, please parents should train these children with love and caution, knowing that they are the future leaders of our society.
Why is it a bad thing to do?
bad parenting breeds a bad and chaos-filled society, so let's try to be good parents to our kids.

DECEPTIVE ADVERTISEMENT

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In today's society sales and business has become one of the most prominent jobs available, but sometimes these products sold are fake or do not serve their advertised purpose. This has contributed to the sickening of the world, apart from the ill effects of these products on the human body it also harms the environment.

why do deceptive advertisements occur?

• Greed-yes greed is the major reason why one person would cheat another to make money
• The need to sell out goods- most people buy goods they don't even need due to advert, but to be able to catch those some people present it with deceit.
• lack of proper regulations and checks- there are bodies responsible for checking the potency and uses of a product, where these bodies do not function there is bound to be deceit.
  This has given many health issues, some have lost their money as well.

My experience:
I have had several friends who have tried to shed weight and in the process, I have seen them fall victims to these advert deceits, many products don't do what they are said to do and some do much harm rather than good. It is hard to find a genuine product for shedding weight in the market these days.

What it does:
This has cost lives, people have lost money, and destroyed society.

ADDICTED TO TECHNOLOGY

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knowing why people are so addicted to technology these days not so difficult, as we know most things we do is done online from meetings to business, to some tests, school, exams are all online these days. but then people are supposed to be able to do without or control these things right so what is happening? well, I think these factors contribute to that;

• parenting what a child learns is what sticks, many parents use technology as a distraction for their kids at an early age and by the time they are 4 years old, they are already hooked.
• Lack of discipline is another factor.
• The need to belong and feel among these days you see many youths on social media and the likes trying to stay in a train, this way they become addicted without knowing they are as they feel its a norm.

My experience: A close friend of mine often entertains her kids with technology, cartoons, games, and other adult entertainment, these kids grow up to be addicted to technology and can't do for a day without it.

What it does: It takes up valuable time, costs money, and reduces the ability to learn and grow.

DRUG ABUSE

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Drug abuse is the abuse or overindulgence in drugs and hard substances, it is one of the vices that has destroyed the lives of many in society, why do many people get so hooked up on drugs and hard substances?

• frustration-to cope with life's frustration many turns to using drugs due to the feeling it gives
• Bad friends- this has introduced many to drugs.
• misinformation.
• presence of this addictive substance in food and drinks.
• poverty and illiteracy

My experience: In my environment, many are addicted to drugs and substances such as alcohol, cigarettes, and snuff. These ones often are lured by company, frustration, and illiteracy. Drug abuse affects them mentally and physically, some even lose their sanity or die.

What it does: Drug abuse destroys society, it makes people lose focus and it is really expensive to maintain.

MISPLACED PRIORITIES

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This has led to a complete waste of time and resources, loss of friendship, loss of empathy, and family relationships. Nowadays people prefer to laugh about every matter including accidents where someone needs urgent care, they stand by filming and posting on social media.
Students use their reading time to watch movies and prefer to cheat during exams, fact is you need knowledge and you only gain that by studying instead of copying.
At work, people waste time just not working and gist and gossip, this is not time to talk but work, many lose their jobs because of this lack of concentration and focus.

My experience:
Around me and on social media, I observe many people pay less attention to the most important things, like hard work, kindness, and study. Especially on social media many today take pleasure in filming incidents rather than helping the victim out, one minute used in filming could have saved a life but that doesn't come to mind.

what it does:
it leads to unemployment. loss of lives. waste of time, laziness, poverty, and lack of knowledge and purpose.

CONCLUSION
In conclusion, the above listed are a few things that make the world sick, we can help heal the world by avoiding them thank you.

special mention
@steemalive