If society is to change for the better, children must get good adult examples to emulate.

There's this snippet from Tokyo.

It is past rush hour. A Japanese stops at the red light. His Indian friend urges him to drive on, since the roads are almost deserted.

The Japanese answers.

Suppose a small child notices?

Gone are the days, when parents and teachers could impose their will and writ on children.

Now, we have a whole new Google enabled Gen of kids who have the world of information at their finger tips.

Independent minded, well read young Turks. You can't bend them to your will. They won't put up with the hypocrisy of adults.

The mother advises her son not to tell lies but herself lies to the milkman, when they come to collect their monthly dues.

Is the son going to let this pass? He is most likely to confront the mother about her double speak.

Ask her to account for this behavioural anomaly, on her part, while handing out homilies to him.

Can the chain smoker dad take his son to task for picking up the habit of smoking, at a tender age? Chances are the kid is gonna shoot back Papa don't preach And the Dad will find himself on the backfoot, for sure.

The Principal, the teachers can preach discipline but if they themselves are noticed to be breaking rules or indulging in wrong practices, their words will have no effect on the students.

Cometh the hour, cometh the man.

We adults need to pledge to be worthy Role Models for the citizens of tomorrow.

The essence of effective education and edification is when sound pedagogy is complemented by responsible parenting.