Saturday, February 23, 2008

Nancy Lin: Habits

Bad habits are seen everywhere and they become a practice to many children if the elderly do not educate them when they notice it. There are so many bad habits that it’s quite difficult to list them all but they can be divided into three kinds and they are hygiene, impoliteness and danger.

The first kind, hygiene, includes the day-to-day habit. To name a few examples, they are: not cleaning hands after toileting; coughing and sneezing without using a hand to cover it; putting clothes in the floor; not wearing hat in the kitchen; not flushing water after toileting; not washing hands before having a meal and so on. As you know, germs exist everywhere and so we should try our best to minimize the possibilities of bringing them into our body.

The second kind, rudeness, will affect our outward appearance; it affects others and shows your personality indirectly. To name a few examples, they are yawning without using a hand to cover it; picking nose in public area; eating noisily when rush; not waiting everybody before starting a meal; yell in class and grab others’ stuff without permission and so on.

Risk taking is the third bad habit that should be avoided, as it will cause danger to you and to others. To name a few examples, they are not having lighting indication when turning the car; gas the car on yellow light; throwing rubbish from height; bricking when making a turn especially under snowy days; smoke in gas station; not wearing helmet, safety belt in construction area and so on.

In my opinion, most of the bad habits can be corrected if the parents are well educated and start to educate the children when they are still young. Besides, government involvement in putting advertisements in TV and radio broadcast may help in making the improvement as well. I hope everybody can be considerate to themselves and to others to take away all the bad habits and be nice to everybody.

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