Whenever I see situations where young children are showcased in social media videos and prompted by some type of adult authority figure to behave in a way unbecoming, I feel a mixture of sadness and anger. The sadness I feel is due to the young person, adhering to a particular personality that the adult filming is trying to bring out of the child. As for the anger I feel, it’s certainly due the righteous indignation boiling up regarding the unfortunate targeting of this child to act in ways that are age-inappropriate.
This video circling the internet is outrageous. The video shows a young boy’s mother, encouraging him to give her a complete description of the kind of girl he wants to date — not even marry “one day.”
The video posted is not fully played from start to finish, but the rest of it showcases how much the child is prompted by the adult to illicit certain responses about what type of girl he is fond of.
I may be a bit more old-fashioned than most, but I know many out there can attest to and agree that asking children to talk about what is “sexy” to them is quite inappropriate. They should be concerned with learning and making good use of reading, writing, and arithmetic, but instead they are learning about girls being attractive, and other purely physical traits. This is not a priority and should not be a priority for a child. Encouraging this type of conversation with a young boy is what leads to “hook-up culture” gaining steam, less-successful marriages, and a cycle of single-parent households.
If there are young adults who begin to understand the attraction they have for the opposite sex, let us as mature adults help them understand their attraction, and what qualities/behavior patterns to pay attention to. They should be taught that physical beauty is only skin-deep, and will only fade with time, but a person’s spirit, disposition, behavior, and character will always remain, and should only ever evolve over time for the better.
However, we are given nothing more than a gross display of bad parenting, which will lead to bad upbringing, and likely a man who looks at women as nothing more than an object. It’s incumbent on us to, as Proverbs 22:6 states, “Train up a child in the way they should go, and when they get old they will not depart far from it.” So let us be the example to our children, and teach them to live and speak in a way that is beautiful, kind, and true.
