My Naija people!! How una dey!
These days we have to be more careful about how we raise our children. The way things are evolving and changing so quickly one would think the end time is the next day.
Recently I have not been taking it lightly with my junior brother. I can't really say what exactly is happening but all of a sudden he began to change in almost everything. His attitude, speech, and character. I don't know if maybe he is getting deceived by his height or by his stature, or maybe the kind of friend he has been making lately.
He has always been with the mindset that there is nothing they can do to him. And somehow feel so pompous in some scenarios. I felt that's actually bound to happen at some stage in one's life but if not well controlled then they will have to take to that shape forever.
He got a phone recently, and I also have my laptop lying somewhere useless to me, though a lot has been needed to work on. It seems faulty but not that bad operating on.
I have loads of movies on it, so since my younger bro is at advantage to know the system has no password, he took that as an avenue to copy and watch movies as much as he could. If he was just moderate with it then we wouldn't have gotten into an encounter about it. But he started abusing the opportunity he had.
There was a day when he copied movies from my system to his phone. Then he was rendered useless the whole day because all he did was to charge his phone and focus on watching the movies. He was watching the movie for the whole day. At that point I realized if nothing is done about it then it will become a part of him that is hard to stop.
Few days after i added a password to the system. So he got no access to copying loads of movie. I know he can find a way to download or copy from other people outside. But there are restrictions to him when he would watch it indoors.
Movies are really important, and they got a nice impact to play on us. As for me i really enjoyed watching movies with lot of life morals in it. Interesting and short ones. These are my types of movies. And that was just the same thing that we were brought up with.
Many times when we would have to wait till our power supply gets on, then we can watch movies and cartoons. During my childhood I can still remember some of the movies we watched then. Most of which are soap operas. Binta and friends, super story, Papa Ajasco (comedy) Fuji house of commotions, This life, and many others.
We watch all of them to gain one or two things from watching. But nowadays everything has turned upside down. If care is not taken you will have your children get exposed to things they shouldn’t at a younger age.
So with this I believe there should be some kind of restriction to the movies our kids watch. We can't be in full control of their lives but at least to some extent lay precautions and give them footage they can follow.
Some of these movies when we watch them, they give a different vibes and mentality to what life is all about. There are some adults that have been through some things that have been taking away their peace of mind in their lives just because of their belief and the mentality derived from movies.
So if all of these are choked into a child at a young age imagine how such a child would struggle with the difference between the real world and the unreal world from movies. This is how heavy and impactful movies can be on our existence.
