Bovi, a well-known social media personality and comedian has ignited a conversation about parenting styles after sharing his experiences with his son, who has a habit of damaging the family’s television sets whenever he is angry.
He revealed this in a recent interview on the Honest Bunch podcast.
He said: “I don’t advocate for beating children; you should let children be. My son breaks the television just for the fun of it when he’s upset. He’d throw stuff at it and break it but he got to the age where he started to feel remorse.”
While Bovi advocates against physical punishment, his more permissive parenting approach has drawn a variety of opinions.
Some viewers of the podcast expressed concern about the potential long-term impact of such leniency, pointing out the importance of instilling consequences for actions without resorting to corporal punishment.
In the discussion on X, a user, @Aginas emphasized the role of age in determining how discipline should be handled, arguing that children over eight years old have a clearer understanding of right and wrong.
She said: “A child above eight knows what is right and wrong though there should be caution in punishing him/her, so it may not lead to child abuse.
“I went to my friend’s house the other day and beat his about six- yr -old son that he burned a curtain out of anger. I felt so bad and had to take the boy to my house. That’s not training but child abuse”.
@ugodeser criticized the approach taken by some parents, stating that proper parenting should focus on teaching children right from wrong and managing their emotions, particularly anger.
“This is a typical example of how not to train a child. You should teach your child the concept of what is wrong and right, and that includes anger management.
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“There is an urgent need for parents to inculcate moral values in their homes. This is why their is a deep moral deficit in the society today,” he commented.
@Softhardguy said that “I don’t advocate for beating children either. But I 💯 advocate for teaching children about cause and effect, about how their actions have consequences, good or bad.
“1 once took away all my daughter’s devices and replaced them with physical books. Today, she’s the library prefect of her school while in primary 5.
“He (Bovi) would have used those moments to teach the kid that we don’t throw things when angry and help build the child’s character.
@Japheto seconded this position by saying that “you don’t teach your son to control their emotions, you are raising a very dangerous man who will end up being a menace to society in the future”
@Eddyconsult suggested it may likely be a case of oppositional defiant behaviour shown by Bovi’s child.
He said that “no one should take a child two to 14 years old lightly if they exhibit stubborn behaviours and not taking advice.
“Best to seek psychological therapy for this type of children early, if not they grow into it and some become dangerous.
“Beating doesn’t help change a kid but still needed some light punishment to help them. Extremes only make them worse as research shows.”
