Parenting Fail: Viral Photo Shows Child Holding A Banner Asking Vamika Kohli On Date

A picture is going viral on the internet from a recent Indian Premier League match in which a little kid can be seen holding a banner asking Virat Kohli if he can date Vamika Kohli. The banner, which seemed cute to the kid's parents, was labeled as creepy on the internet. Here's why.

Parenting is one of the most complex tasks in the world and right parenting is still not known to many parents. People often end up promoting wrong values in their children, intentionally or unintentionally, which actually grow up with them.

Values learned as a child are hard to forget and significantly shape a person's adulthood and hence parents need to be very careful of what they are teaching them. The topic of right parenting again became a hot topic of discussion on the internet when a picture of a child holding a rather troubling banner went viral.

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Kid Holds Banner For Vamika Kohli

In the picture, a child can be seen holding a cardboard banner in which he called Virat Kohli, an uncle, and asked if he could take his daughter Vamika on a date. While some people might find it cute, it actually shows how the concept of right parenting is misunderstood. The internet is blaming the parents of the child for making him present such a banner and promoting such ideas at such a small age.

The problem here is that this is not the age of sexualising children. They are too young to understand the concept of attraction and dating and should be kept away from such ideas. If parents promote the opposite gender as a sexual object from a young age among children, it is highly likely that they will grow up to think of them as nothing more.

A world in which complaints of messed up relationship ideas and problematic expectations of men from women tend to forget that the mindset is developed from a very young age and even the most innocent-seeming gestures can take a huge toll on the child's entire personality.

Parents often find certain things cute when their child does that but that does not mean that those things are right. A good way is by imagining what they would think if the same thing they did when they grew up or as adults. Consider a grown-up child holding a banner asking Virat Kohli if he can take his daughter on a date. It would be extremely creepy and objectification of women.

If you cannot watch an adult doing a certain thing, don't let or make your child do it because whatever they see and learn at a young age will remain with them through their adulthood and will eventually impact society when they are a part of it.