Role of Parents In Child Development Towards Content Consumption.

This generation of today is just far different from the past generations. And I can say that if care is not taken the generations to come might even be way worse or maybe better (lower chance).

I remember when we were younger there were no phones like Android tablets and the rest. There were no laptops then. The only means of communication then were through postal, and landline phones and there were computers too. But all of these were so scarce.

While at home after school all we did was to get our books, read, have our assignments done, and then watch television. Watching television then was so open that our parents would get to see whatever channel we were watching and most times we even prefer watching educational programs or we watch cartoons.

Those were how we lived during my younger days. But it amazes me to see how fast the younger generations of today have changed and adapted to the trends of today. It's kinda surprising yet the reality.

One of my cousins who was just about two years old would get hold of her mum’s phone and then navigate her way down to YouTube to watch YouTube shorts. She would find full focus to the extent no one could collect the phone from her unless she would cry throughout the day.

Should I say she doesn’t know what she was watching?

On TikTok recently I watched a video of a child and her mum, just about a year plus, she was having a challenge with her mum. This was some kind of trending challenge at that time. When I checked her response to comments. The mum said her child had been watching the challenge for some time and she was so attracted to it that she knew what to do and what not to do.

Should we say Tiktok should be held responsible for teaching the child such a thing or the mum should be the one responsible?

This is where the role of parents comes in, parents play a greater role in the upbringing of a child. While they are younger, they are like fresh fish that can be shaped in any form. But once they grow older, they take the shape of a smoked fish that when we try to bend them, we break them.

The world of today is now revolving around technology and social media. Many are not even watching television channels again, because almost all they need are there for them on their phones and laptops. We can read daily news on our phones, follow trending news on our phones, visit websites, and also watch movies on our phones. So there is just a little use to that of the television nowadays.

Content consumption of our kids is our sole responsibility as parents. And as for the content creators and website owners. There should be some kind of restrictions to some content they feel won't be ethical for children below a certain age unless under parental guidance.

This is my response to the HIVE LEARNERS weekly prompt in hive learners community for the Week 128 Edition 3 and the topic to be discussed is UNCENSORED