When my child ask- what is condom?
Yesterday I got opportunity to visit popular single screen local cinema house at Gandhinagar for a wonderful movie “Alha Ke Bande”. The movie is about how children are used by gangsters. Movie was really heart touching to me as it presented unseen realities of our society. I was really moved by the scenes used for justifying the story, it was full of child abusing and violence even though this movie is not A certified.
The audience present in that hall was children of 5th standard to 10th standard of one of the nearby boys’ hostel. The warden of gave permission to these kids to go to movie without have awareness about the sexual abusing scene this movie has (he might not be knowing that which movie these boys are going to watch). Children aged 8 year to 14 year, instead of learning good part of this movie was motivated by bad part.
It was really shocking for me to see that kids aged around 6-8 years where using the F words in public places. I asked meaning of ‘Fuck’ to one boy who speaking this word, he replied very innocently that he don’t know meaning but his favourite hero spoke this word on screen and audience appreciated it, so he using that word. I didn’t find any difference between children shown in movie using guns while comparing children came out of that cinema hall using and behaving similar to pathetic scenes.
Impact of media on children is talked and observed heavily now a day. What happens when your child asks you about the beep sound occurring during reality show? What do you do when your child asks you what is discreet relationship or extra marital affair means? What will you answer when child aged 4-6 years will ask you what is condom or what is whisper? How will you react when you find small kid showing middle finger to his friends? Parents usually tries to avoid such questions because they believe that it’s not proper age to know such things, I agree to this notion but Indirectly parents are suppressing curiosity of their child who’ll defiantly find out answers by his own which is really dangerous for child.
Every parents are aware about the nuisance of Internet , TV and mobile and due to fear of not exposing their child to such media they put restriction on child which has caused adverse effect on child later on because restriction some time encourage curiosity among children which can make them violent on other side too much restriction can be responsible for downfall of confidence level among kids. Not only kids but Parents of today needs to be smarter and sharper.
The behaviour of child is no longer seems to be childish to me because they are exposed to media so heavily that they start learning things before their actual age and even media is not behaving as responsible institute. Behaviour of children is really not needed to be controlled, its needed to observed and directed in proper direction.
The audience present in that hall was children of 5th standard to 10th standard of one of the nearby boys’ hostel. The warden of gave permission to these kids to go to movie without have awareness about the sexual abusing scene this movie has (he might not be knowing that which movie these boys are going to watch). Children aged 8 year to 14 year, instead of learning good part of this movie was motivated by bad part.
It was really shocking for me to see that kids aged around 6-8 years where using the F words in public places. I asked meaning of ‘Fuck’ to one boy who speaking this word, he replied very innocently that he don’t know meaning but his favourite hero spoke this word on screen and audience appreciated it, so he using that word. I didn’t find any difference between children shown in movie using guns while comparing children came out of that cinema hall using and behaving similar to pathetic scenes.
Impact of media on children is talked and observed heavily now a day. What happens when your child asks you about the beep sound occurring during reality show? What do you do when your child asks you what is discreet relationship or extra marital affair means? What will you answer when child aged 4-6 years will ask you what is condom or what is whisper? How will you react when you find small kid showing middle finger to his friends? Parents usually tries to avoid such questions because they believe that it’s not proper age to know such things, I agree to this notion but Indirectly parents are suppressing curiosity of their child who’ll defiantly find out answers by his own which is really dangerous for child.
Every parents are aware about the nuisance of Internet , TV and mobile and due to fear of not exposing their child to such media they put restriction on child which has caused adverse effect on child later on because restriction some time encourage curiosity among children which can make them violent on other side too much restriction can be responsible for downfall of confidence level among kids. Not only kids but Parents of today needs to be smarter and sharper.
The behaviour of child is no longer seems to be childish to me because they are exposed to media so heavily that they start learning things before their actual age and even media is not behaving as responsible institute. Behaviour of children is really not needed to be controlled, its needed to observed and directed in proper direction.
Let the child a be a child
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