Family - the cradle of Culture

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Not at school, not in museums and theaters, but within the family, from an early age, we absorb basic ideas about "what is good and what is bad."

Today all and sundry people talk and write a lot about improving culture. And in most cases, all these conversations boil down to the fact that the state and society are not giving us something: "That would be more exhibitions or programs about culture and the level of culture would immediately rise."

I do not argue, in many ways it is. But why do we all live in the same society, watch the same TV, listen to the same radio, and at the same time some cultural, and others not?

I think that the primary source of the formation of a cultural personality is found much earlier than a person enters society, namely the family. After all, it is here that a small person comprehends the first foundations of "what is good and what is bad …". Remember the story of Mowgli. A small child finds himself in the jungle, in a wolf family, which lives in a pack according to the law of the jungle. In it, he considers himself a wolf and behaves like a wolf.

This is an example from literature, and below is an example from life.

Most recently, I was on a bus and saw this picture. At the bus stop, a grandmother and a grandson of about five years old entered the salon. The young man sitting next to the entrance gave way. The grandmother tried to plant her grandson. The bus shakes and it is quite difficult for a little man to stand, but the boy raised his head and proudly said: "Sit down, granny, I am a man, I must stand."

They drove a couple of stops and got off. After another stop, a mother and a slightly older son came in - probably about eight years old. The young man again gave way. The woman seated the boy, who, without resisting, sat down, and she herself stood opposite, holding two heavy bags in her hands. At the next stop, I got off and thought how different the upbringing in the family is. One grows up as a real man, and just a cultured person, and by whom does the second grow?

But in a few years, this woman, who gave way to her son, will wait for his help. Will it wait? What will this boy do to his mother when he is an adult? I am afraid that even then he will not give up his place. But the first kid who stood, pleasantly surprised me with his emphatically respectful attitude towards his grandmother. How nice to hear instead of "you" - "you"! By the way, earlier in Russia not only the elderly, but also the father and mother were addressed only to “you”.

Maybe this is a small grain in the formation of a cultured person, but from such grains the culture of a person as a whole is built. Children look at us, copy our behavior, try to be like the adults they love. Therefore, if we want the level of culture in our country to be high, we must lay its foundations in the upbringing of the younger generation. And pay special attention to the culture of family relationships.

We all need to pay attention to ourselves. What is happening in our families. Because one personal example is much stronger than many of the most correct words.