What is Life's Assets?

The word, “Asset” has been always mentioned as a large amount of money spending on a valuable investment, patent, raw materials, man power or even time consuming. This kind of investment usually ends up with earning profit and loosing account or being break-even which is contrary to a Life's Assets. The latter investment contrastively depicts a different side of the real asset’s mirror image.

Everyone was born with a variety fundamental of life which gradually generated by love and caring of parents from prenatal state to the building blocks of parental guidance. Each life itself is automatically and gradually related by the Life's Assets: nice surroundings, good atmosphere within the household, peer, professor and community. All of these factors could bring out the best in one’s life both physical and mental basis. Thus, it models children’s lives to be varied.

Could you imagine of having no life’s asset in one’s life? If the children are not being loved, neither trusted nor secured, they would turn out to be the one who has weak power of immunity, living and wandering round the infectious society. And we, as witnesses, cannot even protect them from any fatal viruses or injuries that are always ready to attack them by chance.

"Do children think or rethink about any actions before doing? We have surveyed and found out that the children with less than 10 Life's Assets’ index are at risk of every aspect: drug addiction, premarital sexual behaviors and social harassment, comparing to the group of having good life’s assets. Having proper power of social immunity, the children will have an ability to weigh the pros and cons. If the further questionis about being able or unable to raise this kind of asset in one’s awareness, the answer is going to be yes! We can generally teach them since they are in the primary level. Rules and disciplines are being counted too. What if they don’t really have this social immunity? They might decide to do something with emotion not consideration and finally wind up with the harassment act to each other."Dr.Suriyadel Tripatri Said.

Nowadays, there are many social problems in Thai society: drugs, gambling, premarital sexual intercourse, internet and games’ obsession or social harassment. We realize that the bottom line is having no life’s assets. Some lives may be broken, some are decayed, and some are lost. But life’s assets can be added, repaired, rebuilt and regained according to the sentence stated that “Valuing Asset… You can add.”, “Fundamental life’s assets…You can fix.”

As a matter of fact, Life's Assets  are truly vital. It could help improving the children’s lives, the root of the society, to have strength immunity, living among infectious surroundings. That severe attack on children is no different from the antagonists, waiting to deteriorate our nation.

Concerning about the importance of children’s lives Life's Assets reinforcement, Dr. Suriyadel Tripatri and Team of Children and Youth Program, being under the support of Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth) and Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health have been working on the Life's Assets’ projects and researches in many aspects for children and youth. The research has been conducted by considering for both social context and our cultures. Consequently, the outcome has been developed to become an index, indicating power of social immunity for children and youth and generally being named as “Life's Assets”

The tools for children and youth evaluation of this project now have 48 indices. It is divided into 5 aspects, 5 powers and can be chronologically arranged by its importance as following;

1. Power of Self ; it could be ranked as the first priority of the Life's Assets. If there are any children who lack of this quality, they should be urgently regained and encouraged. The process will mainly deal with an emotional feeling and mental state such as training them to see their value of themselves, EQ control and solving problems with peaceful action.

2. Power of the Family; it is the basic drive from an intimate friendship, supporting, caring each person with love and being a good role model for them too.

3. Power of Intelligence; it is not limited only by education but also eagerness to learn about life’s wisdom. Norms, old traditions and cultures are all simply beautiful and full of wisdom. When one realize to these facts, the feeling of hometown awareness will be raised in his mind.

4. Power of Community; it is the power of close relationship with neighbors, being all together with sympathy and being supported by the authority of the community.

5. Peer Power and creative Activity; a useful activity with friends can make children know how to be compatible with others, how to love and care each other and how to avoid doing bad things.

“The more we water and fertilize our trees, the more we gain a fruitful outcome.” Life is just like that! I think it’s not an old-fashioned to say, “Today’s Children, Tomorrow’s World.”

"If we continuously develop children’s lives both physically, mentally and socially until it is completed step by step. All processing will make them have a well-balanced life. And their educational fundamental will be effective. They don’t have to… just fight for good grades but they know how to be satisfied with decent grades they have got. They will learn how to manage their emotional pulse. They will know how to live in a family peacefully, helping others. When they become youngsters, they will be the leaders who always help developing our country. Volunteer and service mind will rise up. The children will be well organized, having good discipline, being creative and know how to sacrifice things with a “sufficient” heart. If this kind of citizen has his own children, they will automatically know how to raise theirs. It will pass down from generation to generation and it can be called as National Building Process" Dr.Suriyadel Tripatri Said.

Is it better to see these images in our future, created by our own hands?

VDO Clip of Children and Youth Health Program