Popular Nigerian comedian, Bovi Ugboma has spoken on the issue of corporal punishment for children and the right methods of parenting, rekindling the debate which has long existed.
During an interview on The Honest Bunch podcast, Bovi shared his stance on the punishment of children, stating that he does not support or advocate for beating children.
Bovi condemned the hitting of children whenever they exert a bad behavior, noting that parents who resort to such methods are not really correcting the child, but are just expressing frustration. For him children should be allowed to be children.
The comedian and actor revealed that his son whenever he gets angry, would throw things at the television. That he has broken the television three times, which has become a fun act.
“I don’t advocate for beating children. You should let children be. My son dey break television for the fun of it. If he vex, he go throw stuff and break it. He got to an age, and I saw the remorse,” he said.
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Bovi made it known that he does not beat his child when he gets angry and breaks the television, rather, he just buys a new one. He explained that if he couldn’t afford the television whenever his son broke it, maybe he’d have applied a different approach.
“Thank God for capacity; if I couldn’t afford another TV, then the approach would have been different. That’s why I tell people, most times when we hit kids, check: are you really trying to correct them, or are you frustrated?” Bovi said.
Here Bovi has proven his point that most parents do not beat their children for correction, but rather because they are frustrated. And in situations like breaking an equipment in the house, parents who cannot afford to replace those equipment are more likely to hit their child.
A lot of people have been thrown into this debate, with many supporting Bovi’s stand, while some found his statement of breaking television “for the fun of it” rather inappropriate.
Bovi in another post on his twitter handle acknowledged that the anger and disapproval he has gotten from people is because he said his son breaks TV for the fun of it.
Bovi apologized but held unto his position, and said, “you don’t have to agree with me. If you have children you want to beat, enjoy. My papa no physically beat me and I turned out almost ok.”
One @engine_amr reacted saying that if Bovi’s child has to break three Tvs, it only means his parenting technique is not working, that no one is talking about beating a child.
Bovi seems to have a reason for his approach, as he claims, all children are not the same, and it is wrong to use the same approach for all your children. In his own case, his son had a speech impediment and a communication problem for which he is just starting to improve.
