The meaning of lifestyle is a way of living of individuals, families (households), and

societies. That mean lifestyle involves physical, psychological, social, and economic
environments. Lifestyle is actually expressed in both work and leisure behavior patterns and
(depends on an individual basic) in activities, attitudes, interests, opinions, values, and allocation
of income. Besides, it also reflects people's expression or self concept; the way they see
themselves and believe they are seen by the other people. Lifestyle is part of motivations, needs,
and wants. It influenced by a lot of factors such as culture, family, reference groups, and social
class. The analysis by psychographics, who are the consumers of people, is an important factor in
determining how consumers make their purchase decisions. Our lifestyle is changing very fast
over the years. Peoples life nowadays is change regarding to the trends of the society. Some
people live in positive trend, while others have another opinion about it. Modern life style
actually has advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, there are some merits due to the
advent of new style of life. In our todays life people accept the life pattern which is convenient.
Since there are troves of resources or choices to adapt, they absorb the most suitable version to
make them feel more comfortable. Moreover, modern life style has happened in several changes
which are reduce physical workload, change society life style and make the duty easier. As a
result the community adopts these technologies to assist them in their daily chores. Therefore, it
is very time saving to solve the problem.
Nowadays to fulfill the needs of the family a lot of sacrificed have been made. As we all
know, a lot of family structure has involved to two working parents in order to live in the modern
and desirable world. With the fast pace of the development of the world today, every company
and employee have to achieve the best to suit the needs and goals of the society. That means
people who were work are getting busy every day. In addition, inflation plays a very big impact
in the current world and the rising the cost of food and education. Therefore to solve this
problem, parents are putting a few extra hours at work and doing another work when they have
time off and this will helps in monetary compensation. For example, parents do work such as
online business from home through the internet which provides extra money actually is unable to
have the time and the needs of their children. As a result, the time will become smaller for the
parents to spend with their children.

Time became money not love, hence society feels these changes as a blessing to survive
in this competitive and modern world. This evolution has changed the parents life and affected
the quality time and the overall development of their children. It is the fact, that how modern life
styles can have a negative effects especially on familys life. Children are lack of being care by
their parents due to the modern life style. Parents are no longer are able to provide the sufficient
care and support for their children. Then the strong bonding between parents and children will be
decreasing day by day and thus putting their children in the distress life. Many children have to
suffer because they lack of love and attention in todays society which are the bad situation for
them to face it in the future.
Parent is the most important person in their childrens life. They have to build a solid and
hard foundation for their kids in order for them to have a successful and rewarding life. The
foundation needs to be built at an early age. The foundation of an individual can be broken down
into several different parts, such as morals, religious beliefs, political standpoints, and education.
Educating children has become harder than ever before. Without any advise from parents the
children from the broken family became stress and being bad person. On the one hand, busy
parent`s of the modern lifestyles have some adverse effects on children`s upbringing.
Time doesn't changes but people change same as that as the time is changing we are grooming
ourselves and we are developing men and women are equal.
Before this, traditionally the husband was the breadwinner of the family and the wife
stayed at home to take care of her children, this ordinary family role now has completely
changed. In order to solve this problem, in many families children are brought to special places
such as kindergartens. They just let the kindergartens to educate and care them without any
control. Undeniably, it adversely affects the relationship between parents and children. There was
a time when parents used to devote most of their time to their children .But today, parents are so
busy in gathering money that they dont have time for their own children .They are able to give
all materialistic possessions but not the most important element time which in term spoils the
forth coming generations. As a result, parents spend less time with their children, for example,
they are no longer eat meals together as used in the past. Also working parents tend to have less
opportunity to supervise and watch their children`s behavior and moral.
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Morals are probably the most import part in an individual's life. They define us the right
from wrong and good from bad. The lack of the attention and moral educating from the busy
parent will affect the childrens life. Crime is often times attributed to the lack of morals that a
person has. Criminals are, in many cases, results of broken homes or families, where morals
where not properly taught by the parents. There is more crimes and trouble nowadays. A modern
life person has broken the modern world. When this particular part of the foundation is missing,
a person can become corrupt. The parents are really need to focus in on teaching their children
morals, because it will shape the character of the individual and help him to become a better
person.
Parents should not give the responsibility to school to educate their children. But parents
should advise and educate their children. It is because these morals education will help to guide
the child throughout their lifetime. Then the crime rate would be considerably lower in the world
if this crucial piece of the foundation is properly assembled. On the other hand, sometimes many
hard working families may still find the time to spend with their children. These families must
put more value on raising children, and it causes them a great sense of achievement when they
bring up their children in a perfect way. For example, in some low income families, parents are
still considerably involved in their children`s life so they know their children`s friends.
In modern life style, computer and internet are being introduced into most houses.
Although they have a lot of advantages, they have adverse effects on people health. Jayashree,
2007 said "Internet has been perhaps the most outstanding innovation in the field of
communication in the history of mankind. As with every single innovation, internet has its own
advantages and disadvantages". According to her the advantages of internet is include a better
communication, faster way of getting information, and for entertainment. The internet has made
the world smaller and it also provides a lot of services for people to use. Children also now use
the computers vary widely. It is even being introduced in the teaching curriculum of majority of
schools in Malaysia. They also use it in playing video games for their entertainment and joy.
Even a lot of adults enjoy the video games as well

No doubt that our modern lifestyle today, relies on computers and social networks;
however as humans we rely on communication and social bonding with other people, especially
with the other members of our family. Through thousands of years this became our human
nature, but this natural process can be interrupt by overuse of social networks. The effects of
modern life style on the psychological status of people are still on research. But, most
researchers agree that to some extent modern life style indirectly impact psychosocial life of
individuals. Experts from university of Washington have warned that the way modern technology
has been breaking people's connections with the natural world may give rise to a major
psychological problem.
One of these effects includes increasing the stress level due to the so many obligations
today's person might take. Even though some degree of stress might be useful in order to handle
different problems we face every day. Chronic stress will have effects on the person's physical
state as it will lead to many diseases. Raylopez, (2009) said in his article about causes of stress in
modern life style "In modern lifestyle, however, stressful are continues and stress is daily, so the
pressure builds up and eventually causes damage to the body". Taking a break from mindless
entertainment media also works wonders for those who feel emotionally distressed. Too many
television shows, video games, and movies have been found to alter your mental state to a point
where you are more likely to feel overwhelming levels of emotional stress. The technology
penetrates our lives so exponentially lots of activities have become available for both parents and
children. They are highly addictive and use a big amount of time. The technology is crippling the
minds of children today. Consequently, children get less affection from their parents, which is
need at their early age.
In terms of effects on the parents, it is apparent that a great majority of parents have
become addicted to computers, smart phone, or TV, so they spend their time in front of screens.
Such changes in parents attitude produce negative results for their families, since they cannot
interested in their childrens life so frequently. The modern lifestyle tends to change the way we
communicate. These days it not always considered abnormal if parents communicate with their
children through smart phones even if they are at the same house. In this way the distance with
their children will become bigger, which can cause in kids a variety of emotional problems. So,
children rely on affection and effective communication with their parents. Some modern habits,
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like social networks can create a gap between parents and their children, which is hard to fill. To
reach a consensus, parents should use these technologies wisely and teach their children to act
accordingly.
In addition, every time you turn your television, there is violence being promoted. People
are buying violent games for their children. Kids seem to live for games and TV and demand the
best things to purchase and nothing else, only the best and the busy parents give it to them. Look
how people dress! No self-respect at all, everything hanging out. Everyone making fun of them
and laughing at them but they think they are cool. NO!! We need less violence and we need more
respect for ones-self. It is true because in this type of modern world, the people are so dependent
on the technology and as we all know, almost a 5 year old child will have his own cell phone or
laptop. So, this is not good at all because a child doesn't know the basic things of life and the
simple counting but he knows most about how to use a cell phone or a laptop. Also the parents
are not saying anything because they are busy in their own life.
In conclusion, it is clear that the lack of attention from parents to their children is getting
worse which did not happen earlier. As mentioned above, this is because parents have to take
more rest after work or they have to work overtime continuously. Besides that, spending time
with their children requires them to have more knowledge than before. We actually believe that
there are cases where parents extremely busy but still managed to be involved in their children`s
life. It should be the parent duty to balance their working and family life particularly if they
decided to have children. To solve this problem, parents should have more time for their
daughters, son initially. Use the smart phone to communicate and having a talk to them every day
although we are busy. To sum up, children who live with their parents in modern lifestyle are
more and more suffered by the ignorance of their mom and dad. Why dont the parents go to play
and enjoy with them instead of living for themselves. As seen above, although family structure
transform over the years, if parents consciously divide their time with work and family, will
overwhelm this transformation

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