They are watching.

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2 years ago

You'll agree with me that parenting is a really vast topic that has so many broad meanings to it.

  • Different children, with different behaviors.

  • Different parents with different techniques on proper upbringing of their wards.

There was a short video clip I saw today, I'm sure some of you might have seen it, oh!, I'd have loved to post the video here, but just too bad there's no link to it and that's because I viewed it from a WhatsApp status.

What was the video about?

Four Indian people were seated. From the looks of it and the happy expression they wore on their faces, one could tell that they were having an amusing conversation.

Two; from this four were couples, and the other two were also couples. The little child of one of the couples', came over to them with a girl. (She should be the other couple's daughter).

Here was the short discussion they had.

Little boy's name: Adithya.

Little girl's name: Manya.

Adithya: Papa, I'm getting married.

All, except Adithya and Manya: (laughs hysterically).

Manya's mum: (exclaims) oh my God!

Adithya's mum: What's all these?

Adithya: Me and Manya are getting married.

Adithya's mum: Adithya go inside and play.

Manya's Dad: And what would you do after getting married?

Adithya: I will wake up in the morning and be ready like my father

All, but Adithya and Manya: (sighs in content)

Manya's Dad: And then?

Adithya: Manya will give me my bag and I'll go to the office.

All, but Adithya and Manya: (laughs)

Adithya continues: And I'll sign so many papers and will get lots of money.

Manya's Dad: What will you do when you come home?

Adithya: Then I'll beat her.

The atmosphere suddenly changes; with both parents wearing a surprised look, their humorous faces suddenly becomes gloomy.

Adithya continues: And I will close the door fastly and sleep.

The little girl Adithya said he would marry, suddenly interrupts trying to correct him for omitting something.

Manya: No... No... Before you go to sleep, I will serve you food and you'll throw the plate angrily.

Adithya: (receives correction and says) Okay.

The video ended with this:

These kids grow up and believe it's okay to violate women.

Light fades...

Summary:

Adithya and Manya would have observed how their parents treat eachother. Adithya must have seen how his father gets ready for work in the morning, takes his bag from his mother, goes to work and comes back home; only to beat his mother.

So from this illustration;

Adithya felt it was very much okay to beat a woman, and Manya also agreed to this because she would have seen her parents doing such to eachother.

Why the story?

Though the video was staged, there was a message those Indians were trying to pass across and it very plain:

They are watching.

Yes, our children are watching us, the way we treat our wives, the way we treat our husbands. Except being told otherwise or if they learn otherwise as they age, they'll definitely grow up to believing that it's right to be violent to a woman.

One of the reasons why some men find pleasure in beating up their wives at the slightest provocation is basically because they grew up having to see their father doing such to their mother.

There was something I heard sometime back, a man was claiming that the best way to discipline a wife is by beating her. That for nagging wives or wives that complains alot, the only way to keep them quiet is by beating them. Really!!.

Let's be cautious with the things we do or say around our children.

Children of nowadays are way too smart, the way they read meanings to things, the way they understand the things we do, is just so overwhelming.

Sighs...

This would be all for today, till we see again in my next article and in your next article.

Thanks for reading.



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Yup children eyes and mind catches things very fast. They will observe and learn what we do, good or bad they don't know. They will just see my father and mother I doing it must a good thing to do. Seriously every parents should see this apart from disciplining them, we should also discipline ourselves.

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2 years ago

Yes, oh yes. They watch us so well and their mind catches things pretty fast. Parents indeed should just discipline themselves. Thanks for stopping by here.

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2 years ago

We say a lot in front of children now and I think they may have learned to understand. Children are now the age to learn. We will say it in front of them and they will learn by watching it. So we should think and talk in front of them. Especially parents need to be more aware. If they fight in front of the child, it will leave deep scars on the minds of the children.

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2 years ago

Exactly, that's why parents should learn to settle their disputes in private, far away from the child.

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2 years ago

Children these days are very smart, they learn everything their parents do either good or bad, and stick to it till they become an adult. As a parent, we should be very careful about the kind of words we say, our actions(what we do) in front of our children about following the bad step.

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2 years ago

Children of nowadays really learn things so fast, we need to pay close attention to whatever we do in their presence.

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2 years ago

When I became a mother many years ago, a wise woman told me, remember that a child comes into this world as a blank canvas and you are the first artist who's going to be drawing on it. Children live what they see.

This is an important message on so many levels. On the one hand, it speaks to abuse and how patriarchal society can be- the man who is all important going to work and the woman who must stay at home and serve. And while this arrangement is fine, there's nothing wrong with it, and there are many homes where the father is the provider and the mother the caretaker of the home and nurturer of the children, unfortunately, and all too often, we have seen that in arrangements like these, the woman becomes the outlet the man may use to pour all his aggression and frustration.

This story also speaks to the abuse of children from their exposure and the cycle of abuse that continues in the children who witness and are moulded by this and who then grow up and adopt the same beliefs and practices. It is great that you have shed light on this important topic. As adults, we must do better by investing not just money, but values, morals, codes of behavior, etc., into future generations. Have a great day.

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2 years ago

Trifecta, you really made a massive contribution to the topic. Thanks for this enormous additional input.

Those words in the first paragraph keeps ringing in my memories.

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2 years ago

You are a mirror in the eyes of a child!

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2 years ago

Bloghound, you've summarized the whole article into a sentence. You're so right.

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2 years ago

That was very true dear. Children's learn and conclude that everything that they saw and heard was always right or okay to say as they can see the reaction from others that they mean for agreement. Children's learn from adults, they learn from what they saw and observe, just like us. If parents and guardians was aware with their actions, they may become a good influencer to their children's. However we weren't perfect, nobody's perfect either, sometimes we do mistakes and our children's might accidentally saw what we did. If we wanted to correct the mistake that we did we should take time to explain, teach our children about the mistake and which and what they must not follow or do. But sadly sometimes adults are not willing to be a good influencer, as sometimes they only laugh if they heard or seen a bad behaviour or a wrong action from children, and so children thought that they were funny to be laugh and nothing was wrong with their actions. Parents and guardians, remember that our children's behaviour was actually our own shadow, so be a good example and have a beautiful shadow.

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2 years ago

Gray, you've really hit the nail on the head. Parents should take time to explain things to their children and learn to lead by good examples. Even if a parent want to have an argument, it shouldn't be in the presence of their children This is beautiful Gray, thanks for your contribution πŸ™

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2 years ago

Few days ago, I was discussing this with someone. About how our neighbor(a couple), don't know when to set a boundary. They have hot arguments while their children (4 of them) are present. They even go to the extent of cursing each other and each others' parents forgetting that their children are present at the scene watching them.

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2 years ago

Wow! Imagine, those kinds of children would grow up feeling it's proper to use insulting words. Parents really need to be careful of what they say to each other in presence of their children.

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2 years ago

Charity they say begins at home, as well as every other thing. Patriarchy and internalised misogyny runs deep in the society. If we must change this, we must start first from home, and teach our children to know better and not be dragged into the the patriarchal and abusive sea of the society

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2 years ago

My oh my! I'll need to check my dictionary to find out some words here. You're right Aimure, charity begins at home.

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2 years ago

I know of a boy in jun. sec. School who always pick on girls and would always want to quarrel with them. I don't know what happened in school one day and his both parents were surprised by the principal. After sometime, we started hearing loud screams from the principal's office,it turned out that this dad and mom were quarrelling shamelessly in the school premises...

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2 years ago

Aaaah, such height! Imagine. Wow! It just shows that the boy imitated it from his parents. He must have seen alot, enough for him to act that way at school.

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2 years ago

I really expected Aditya to say this because I guessed where this conversation was going.. I became sad but not shocked.. This happens in many Indian households.. the wife is to serve and husband to take advantage of their partner. YOu are right, kids are learning, learning everything from us

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2 years ago

Wow! Yes kids are learning and what they learn; they learn from us. I never knew it was rampant in India, it happens even here, in my country too. We, parents need to be really careful.

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2 years ago

My dad was like this, he was abusive.. not physically, he never hit Mom but he had an explosive personality, he kept everyone under control with his emotions but Momma bore it for us and they created a toxic house for us to live in.. my childhood was hell but individually, my parents cared for us a lot.. it is like a love hate relatioonship you know

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Wow! I can completely relate to this, my dad was waaay worse and they also did care individually for us.

I can't just start imagining how your childhood looked like.... I'm grateful and glad no one picked up your parents bad sides.

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2 years ago

Sometimes the father is a smoker and advice his children to not smoke but even after all this advice, they finish by smoking because they are watching what you are doing not what you are giving as recommendations.

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2 years ago

Oh my, we actually had a discussion about this one earlier in our house, Miss. And that is very true. No matter how much you teach your child through words, they'll learn best if they see a real-life example, and it is very sad when children get to learn the wrong ones.Β 

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2 years ago

Wow! Really?! You're right Angel, children learn more from what they see and not what they are told.

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2 years ago

Children listens, watch and thereafter emulate the things they see from their guardians - in this case parents, so we must be careful how we treat ourselves in their presence.

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2 years ago

When I saw" I'll beat her", I knew that was the end of a nice storyπŸ˜‚ Parenting really matters because Children mostly mimic what they see

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2 years ago

Lol πŸ˜‚ Yes Okey, parenting really matters.

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2 years ago

The children are watching us and anything the learn now will be sticked to their head like writing in a rock. Children of now a days are very fast learning so the parents has to caution each other the their behaviors.

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2 years ago

Exactly Allboy, we, parent; really need to be careful of whatsoever we say or do in our kids presence.

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2 years ago

I was surprised in the end. I was not expecting that although in reality that does happen. Kids emulate adults. Always put in mind before you take action or say anything what kind of example are you to the those around.

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2 years ago

Exactly Articlee, Kids easily grasp from what they hear or see these days. One really need to be mindful of things being done in the kids presence.

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2 years ago

Ahh i have seen that video, in that video clip actually director was trying to coney the message, that children do what they see, children speak what they listen. This kind of treatment of parents is so common in entire Asia.

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2 years ago

I'm glad you've seen it, really wanted to post the video here but just couldn't. You're right Bibi, they do speak what they hear.

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2 years ago

Children is like a blank Tape from the very beginning but they will record all of the happenings , it is not right to show the kids how violent the world is..

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2 years ago

I love what you said there Dawn; "blank tape from the very beginning, but they'll record all of the happenings."

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2 years ago

Yes, I learned from one of our subject human Psychology ..

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Children are very sensitive and pick up lessons from us as parents, the things we do in their presence matters a lot since it becomes a way of life for them.

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2 years ago

Exactly George, children are really sensitive to things, they easily understand what we do in their presence.

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2 years ago

I ha already watched this video on YouTube. Children's are vey curious about everything, they loves to mimic their elders. They do not even that the things which they are mimicking can be proved as worst too. This is why we need to do more good things in front of childrens instead of bad things.

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2 years ago

Awwwn, it's great to know you've seen the movie. I love the last part, wishing I included it in my write-up. We really need to do more good things in front of children instead of bad things.

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2 years ago

You're absolutely write, when we will do good things infront of children insted of bad, by doing this we can build a healthy, positive and happy mindset in our younger generation.

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2 years ago

See ehn, the kids that are born in this new generation have the brain to photocopy every action they see.. Thats why parent need to be careful what their kids watch and how they act I'm front of their kids. Even till date, I can't watch a movie with a sex scene with my dad😫😫, he will still chase me away, odindin idan of the house..

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Lol πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ You're right Fash, children copy every action they see. It's so true. Lol, aah, your dad should understand that you're grown up πŸ˜‚ Odindin idan πŸ˜‚

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2 years ago

Yes na, I no be small boy again na

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2 years ago

It's the 'Odindin idan of the house' for meπŸ˜‚

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2 years ago

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2 years ago

Children's are way too smart nowadays,we need to be cautious with whatever we do in their front as they learn fast.

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Yes Grace, the children of nowadays are just so smart. We really need to be careful of the way we talk or behave in there presence.

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2 years ago

Children have a curious pair of eyes, making them the best observers in the world.

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