A two-year-old girl is playing alone and singing unmindfully “bojhe naa she bojhe na”— the title song of an Indian Bangla soap opera. This girl has a stay-at-home mom.
A six-year-old girl is visiting a relative – its 11pm, but she does not want to leave now. She insists on watching the Star Plus soap opera “Veera” at the host’s place and wants to leave afterwards, since she’ll be missing an episode otherwise. This girl has a working mom.
The mind of a child is like soft clay, which molds exactly the way it is handled. So if a child starts singing soap opera themes at age two, and starts following late night episodes at age six, then there is definitely something wrong with how the parents are handling the child.
If a child – in particular a girl – is encouraged to dance to the latest Hindi songs at a gaye holud program, or is encouraged to pose like models by putting a hand on her waist for her parents’ Facebook posts, then it’s not really the child’s fault if she commits suicide over a dress when she is a teenager.
I am focusing on girls, as this issue of watching soap operas meant for adults is more prominent within them than in boys. This is another indication of how mothers play a greater role in preventing their children from behaving erratically. Adult males are usually more into sports or news. I don’t want to discuss what an adult should or should not watch, what I want to say is that they should not watch everything in the presence of children.
Now, the question might arise that it’s not only the mother, but the other females of the house who also watch these programs. The thing is, how a child grows up is no one’s responsibility but the parents’.
When the mom is the homemaker, keeping a child away from watching age-inappropriate programs should be easy. The mother has to stay away from watching the programs herself while the child is awake and has to take the child away from the television when others are watching it.
Napoleon said: “Give me an educated mother and I will give you an educated nation.” As is the unfortunate culture in Bangladesh, we often read but do not learn. Napoleon wasn’t just referring to a university degree. Sending children to prestigious schools does not end a parent’s responsibility. There is a lot more left that needs to be taught at home.
Parenting requires sacrifices, not just monetary ones, but smaller sacrifices like not watching one’s favourite program, if that means it could have a bad influence on the child.
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Credit
Article : Niharika Sawant,Tribune Times and IBF India
Author : Natasha Sabrin Khan
Information : IBF India and Star India Corporation
Supported by : Star India and Disney India
Newsroom thanks Tribune Times for giving us a detailed piece of article explaining the effects of bad parenting.
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