Learned Helplessness!!!

One of my lectures, we actually talked about learned helplessness. People become helplessness when the situations around always disappoint them, sooner and later that particular person will get used of the disappointment and think that he could not do any thing to change the situation. One of my classmates actually asked the question." Are Malaysian children having the same problem?" My lecturer agreed. She explain that Malaysian Children are somehow get too comfortable with the presence of a maid where the maid does every thing for them from washing the shoes to feeding them. One of the cases that she had saw was that the child actually have never wore shoes by himself. The maid actually cooks and feeds the child even at the age of 10.

His parents are from China where they have the one child policy. Therefore having the only child at the home, they actually too worry that any accident that may occur to the child even from falling down, knock himself and so on. When my lecturer was telling us the case, I was laughing in my heart. My course mate that pin point that Malaysian Children as the example is also in the similiar category. She does not know how to cook. That is fine with me. Who say women have to learn about cooking. It is not sexual discrimination. Only that, she said she does not know how to cook so she does not want to learn about it. She added on, if she learn how to cook, then she will be the one that cook in the house. So why does she want to learn to cook if that will makes her suffering.

Yes, that a good a example of learned helplessness. When someone is so get use of a situation, he or she will become lazy to change. Even me, i know that teaching tuition like i do now was suffering, i do think about quitting, but once i thought about how i going to find RM 1000 every month if i quit, I swallow back all the thinking. Helpless!!!!!!!!!!