NewStats: 3,262,249 , 8,176,603 topics. Date: Sunday, 01 June 2025 at 03:02 PM 4b5s68

Ah!

Mind your own business before his wife abuses you

Give food to a broiler chicken anytime she demand for it and give something to a child whenever he wants it, and you will have good broiler chicken and a spoilt child.

lovediehatelive:
So I decided to spend the weekend at my uncle's place because it has been many years I went there.


In the midnight, around 1am, I heard the television was on and I thought he forget to put it off.


So I went to the living room only to see his son of about 4-5 years old watching cartoon. I was shocked and asked him to go and sleep, which he grudgingly agreed.


Now, early morning around 5am or so, same thing happened. I want to the living room and saw him there.


This time he refused to go to bed.


I later found out that's how he does. I wonder if he ever sleeps at night.

The parents are not even bothered, but I'm worried. When we were growing up, who are you to stay awake past 9pm watching TV? Not to talk about waking up at night. Even in the day time you better not be caught idling away on front of the TV when others are busy.

This one just comes to the living room anytime he likes and puts on the TV.

Is this how kids of nowadays behave?

The headline would've been "MY UNCLE'S SON ADDICTION TO TV".

Take note next time because a headline summarizes the story.

Cheers!

Exodus15v11:
This your title is fear-inducing, as if the child is in some kinda danger.

As for the child's TV-watching, it's up to his parents to parent him. If they want to spoil him and let him do what he wants at 5-years old, that's their prerogative. They're the ones who will suffer the consequences lateron when they can no longer control him.

not only his parents that will suffer. The society too

So what’s wrong with a kid watching cartoons 1 or 5am?

lovediehatelive:
So I decided to spend the weekend at my uncle's place because it has been many years I went there.


In the midnight, around 1am, I heard the television was on and I thought he forget to put it off.


So I went to the living room only to see his son of about 4-5 years old watching cartoon. I was shocked and asked him to go and sleep, which he grudgingly agreed.


Now, early morning around 5am or so, same thing happened. I want to the living room and saw him there.


This time he refused to go to bed.


I later found out that's how he does. I wonder if he ever sleeps at night.

The parents are not even bothered, but I'm worried. When we were growing up, who are you to stay awake past 9pm watching TV? Not to talk about waking up at night. Even in the day time you better not be caught idling away on front of the TV when others are busy.

This one just comes to the living room anytime he likes and puts on the TV.

Is this how kids of nowadays behave?

I did it...wen I was 10. Apparently we had no cable tv wen I was 5

OP, have you ever heard of the concept of "genetic insomnia"?

It is an inherited case of sleeplessness. I was born with it. Try as much as I could, it's a trait I was never able to get rid of to this day. I practically function optimally with just 1hour of sleep out of 24hours. It used to be quite better when I was a child. I could sleep for about 4hours before the sleep fades and I have to toss in bed until the day breaks. When I got of age and could afford the bills, I sought medical help. There was literally nothing that was prescribed that worked. Overtime, I simply gave up on trying to cure something that was clearly not an ailment. Now, if I have to sleep for more than an hour, I have to resort to eating a bit of weed and that helps to give me about 3 or 4hours of sleep at the very most.

Now the very fact the parents of that child let him stay up with the television might not be a case of an addiction to the screen, but simply an inability for him to sleep. And those parents already recognise that. So don't paint a sordid or deformed picture of another's child. When your own born, if e no gree sleep, you fit use bicycle kick send am go bed.

lovediehatelive:
So I decided to spend the weekend at my uncle's place because it has been many years I went there.


In the midnight, around 1am, I heard the television was on and I thought he forget to put it off.


So I went to the living room only to see his son of about 4-5 years old watching cartoon. I was shocked and asked him to go and sleep, which he grudgingly agreed.


Now, early morning around 5am or so, same thing happened. I want to the living room and saw him there.


This time he refused to go to bed.


I later found out that's how he does. I wonder if he ever sleeps at night.

The parents are not even bothered, but I'm worried. When we were growing up, who are you to stay awake past 9pm watching TV? Not to talk about waking up at night. Even in the day time you better not be caught idling away on front of the TV when others are busy.

This one just comes to the living room anytime he likes and puts on the TV.

Is this how kids of nowadays behave?

lovediehatelive:
So I decided to spend the weekend at my uncle's place because it has been many years I went there.


In the midnight, around 1am, I heard the television was on and I thought he forget to put it off.


So I went to the living room only to see his son of about 4-5 years old watching cartoon. I was shocked and asked him to go and sleep, which he grudgingly agreed.


Now, early morning around 5am or so, same thing happened. I want to the living room and saw him there.


This time he refused to go to bed.


I later found out that's how he does. I wonder if he ever sleeps at night.

The parents are not even bothered, but I'm worried. When we were growing up, who are you to stay awake past 9pm watching TV? Not to talk about waking up at night. Even in the day time you better not be caught idling away on front of the TV when others are busy.

This one just comes to the living room anytime he likes and puts on the TV.

Is this how kids of nowadays behave?

That's a crime scene, a parenting failure. The child is likely insult them and be beating them already.

DevilishMan:
Only poor man fit come somebody house dey set rules.

True true...

You be DevilishMan

Noo, The parents are Woke parents.. Na their pickin dey control them.

If they tell him otherwise he go dey vex and be throwing stupid tanrums.

Cos if he vex too much he go die..

They are on holiday, let him enjoy

BoldBrainz:
OP, have you ever heard of the concept of "genetic insomnia"?

It is an inherited case of sleeplessness. I was born with it. Try as much as I could, it's a trait I was never able to get rid of to this day. I practically function optimally with just 1hour of sleep out of 24hours. It used to be quite better when I was a child. I could sleep for about 4hours before the sleep fades and I have to toss in bed until the day breaks. When I got of age and could afford the bills, I sought medical help. There was literally nothing that was prescribed that worked. Overtime, I simply gave up on trying to cure something that was clearly not an ailment. Now, if I have to sleep for more than an hour, I have to resort to eating a bit of weed and that helps to give me about 3 or 4hours of sleep at the very most.

Now the very fact the parents of that child let him stay up with the television might not be a case of an addiction to the screen, but simply an inability for him to sleep. And those parents already recognise that. So don't paint a sordid or deformed picture of another's child. When your own born, if e no gree sleep, you fit use bicycle kick send am go bed.

I see...

Benefit of doubt, just in case.....

Makes sense.

Whenever I hear the statement "children of nowadays" it usually pisses me off. The correct statement must always be "parents of nowadays". There is nothing worst than failed parenting!

But if they come to you in the near future for help due to the consequences of their child activities, should you help or ignore and/or you need help from them and their child activities were too much on them to help you. We are in a community, so, we must help each other before it's out of reach

Exodus15v11:
This your title is fear-inducing, as if the child is in some kinda danger.

As for the child's TV-watching, it's up to his parents to parent him. If they want to spoil him and let him do what he wants at 5-years old, that's their prerogative. They're the ones who will suffer the consequences lateron when they can no longer control him.

Interesting,

Angrymode:
Whenever I hear the statement "children of nowadays" it usually pisses me off. The correct statement must always be "parents of nowadays". There is nothing worst than failed parenting!

DevilishMan:
Only poor man fit come somebody house dey set rules.

This guy u be werey

lovediehatelive:
So I decided to spend the weekend at my uncle's place because it has been many years I went there.


In the midnight, around 1am, I heard the television was on and I thought he forget to put it off.


So I went to the living room only to see his son of about 4-5 years old watching cartoon. I was shocked and asked him to go and sleep, which he grudgingly agreed.


Now, early morning around 5am or so, same thing happened. I want to the living room and saw him there.


This time he refused to go to bed.


I later found out that's how he does. I wonder if he ever sleeps at night.

The parents are not even bothered, but I'm worried. When we were growing up, who are you to stay awake past 9pm watching TV? Not to talk about waking up at night. Even in the day time you better not be caught idling away on front of the TV when others are busy.

This one just comes to the living room anytime he likes and puts on the TV.

Is this how kids of nowadays behave?

The parents are spoiling that boy. It is not healthy behavior for 4-5year old and encouraging it is bad parenting.

lovediehatelive:
So I decided to spend the weekend at my uncle's place because it has been many years I went there.


In the midnight, around 1am, I heard the television was on and I thought he forget to put it off.


So I went to the living room only to see his son of about 4-5 years old watching cartoon. I was shocked and asked him to go and sleep, which he grudgingly agreed.


Now, early morning around 5am or so, same thing happened. I want to the living room and saw him there.


This time he refused to go to bed.


I later found out that's how he does. I wonder if he ever sleeps at night.

The parents are not even bothered, but I'm worried. When we were growing up, who are you to stay awake past 9pm watching TV? Not to talk about waking up at night. Even in the day time you better not be caught idling away on front of the TV when others are busy.

This one just comes to the living room anytime he likes and puts on the TV.

Is this how kids of nowadays behave?

You never see anything about this Generation Alpha. AI is even here to spoil and destroy them further.

Exodus15v11:
This your title is fear-inducing, as if the child is in some kinda danger.

As for the child's TV-watching, it's up to his parents to parent him. If they want to spoil him and let him do what he wants at 5-years old, that's their prerogative. They're the ones who will suffer the consequences lateron when they can no longer control him.

so a child waking up so late to watch tv is not in danger

lovediehatelive:
So I decided to spend the weekend at my uncle's place because it has been many years I went there.


In the midnight, around 1am, I heard the television was on and I thought he forget to put it off.


So I went to the living room only to see his son of about 4-5 years old watching cartoon. I was shocked and asked him to go and sleep, which he grudgingly agreed.


Now, early morning around 5am or so, same thing happened. I want to the living room and saw him there.


This time he refused to go to bed.


I later found out that's how he does. I wonder if he ever sleeps at night.

The parents are not even bothered, but I'm worried. When we were growing up, who are you to stay awake past 9pm watching TV? Not to talk about waking up at night. Even in the day time you better not be caught idling away on front of the TV when others are busy.

This one just comes to the living room anytime he likes and puts on the TV.

Is this how kids of nowadays behave?

That kid will be doomed if you don't takrle a drastic action on his parents to stop the habit. obviously they are overpamperring him.

Exodus15v11:
This your title is fear-inducing, as if the child is in some kinda danger.

As for the child's TV-watching, it's up to his parents to parent him. If they want to spoil him and let him do what he wants at 5-years old, that's their prerogative. They're the ones who will suffer the consequences lateron when they can no longer control him.

Exodus 15vs11... who is like unto thee, o lord, who is like unto thee. Couldn't stop reading that particular verse for over two weeks now.

Khd95:
You dare not stay outside the house when it’s past 6, better go look for where you go sleep that night, that was how I was trained

And once my dad don watch news of 9 on air then with our box black and white tv, na make everyon disperse go their rooms go sleep, sometime my older siblings stay up later into the night to watch movies, but my dad always take me away from them that if my brothers no even pursue me go sleep be that oo

Parents of these days are too lazy and non chalants towards their children/ward

Like in this boy’s case, don’t the parents wake at night to check on it or take him to pee?

As for just leave the boy, the era of everyone discipline a child is over, if you try harder to correct him or stop him youat have issues with the parents and the boy may antagonize you

Our own B&W tv is like an unappreciated altar of some deity.

The only time I sneakily turn the controls was when nobody was in the living room and there was no light.
Maybe that's why up till now, I'm never a fan of TV.

Children these days can even drag remote with you.

The parents have work to do.

Someone mentioned something about insomnia and the parents being aware of the child suffering from such condition. Ah. I still don't encouraging the behavior. It's like adding oil to fire by letting the child watch TV into the night.

Me thinks..
OP should speak with the parents.

And you guys say there is nothing like reincarnation De play...

Cartoon is not that bad. It has a way of shaping, enlightened and educating kids.

Even me I still watch tv even 2am. Sometimes when o laugh hard neighbors will start prayings.

The average Nigerian is too mentally lazy to deploy the family settings on devices.

You can set parental restrictions on TV, phone, pc etal

But this is Nigeria where it is easier to wail about how big brother is spoiling children than to simply block or it on the decoder.

Hopefully the op too will not be guilty of the same mental laziness in the future

If not failed parenting , then what else

You be busy body, crying louder
than the bereaved ❗️❗️❗️😡😡😡

Na weekend you go spend, na pikin you begin dey monitor. Op may God deliver you from monitoring spirit

I think schools are on holidays this period so I don't see what the issue is.
Go to your house and mind your damn business, the boy isn't doing anything wrong