Catechesis an upbringing in freedom from addiction

Abstract

Progress, development and new technologies make the reality that surrounds us extremely attractive. Man lives in a world where information reaches him from all sides. In a world of such great availability of all material goods, a young man becomes lost without experience and support. A man who starts to ask about freedom and wants to use it. Without support, a misunderstood freedom turns into a young man’s enslavement. Alcohol, drugs, designer drugs, medicine, nicotine captivate a young person. What values and norms an adolescent will follow depends largely on two environments, namely the family and school. Today the catechesis of children and young people is facing an enormous educational and didactic challenge. The attitude of the teacher towards students is crucial and extremely significant in the times of many contemporary civilization problems. The contemporary decline in values, the lack of appropriate personal role models, the influence of the mass media and disturbed family or peer relationships make young people more and more often misuse their freedom and become entangled in various types of addictions that enslave and distort the ability to look at themselves and the surrounding reality.