Content bomb is the most powerful weapon of our times!

Content bomb is the most powerful weapon of our times, the trigger of which is in every fingertip. It entertains, it thrills but it also kills, not the person like speed does but the personality like nothing does.

I learnt from my seven year old children that their classmates had talked about an 'A' certificate film in their classroom, and few of the kids had watched it too.

On a national television channel, a 15 year old cricketer names an 'A' certified film as his favourite.

Entertainment reels gather more views than any other stuff on the social media. I bet any child will give back the mobile if we leave them to watch the reels. Forget about children, we grownups do not come out of them easily!

And this is not just about the current times.

Years ago, few children jumped off the high rise buildings thinking that Shaktiman would come to save them. Super heroes have always excited children. Franchises have cashed it big already.

Motion pictures have a larger impact on children. Watching a movie as a movie is a myth. Making children understand what needs to be captured from the content they watch is no more an easy deal.

There is just too much undesired content out there and we live with a false assumption that we will figure out how we make sure it doesn't reach our children!

It reaches. It does. Period.

Can the content be stopped from being created? Logically No. Content creators are making huge money out of what they make. Technically yes, but that needs a lot of things to happen together.

Can we stop children from watching the undesired content? Yes, but only to some extent which is not enough. The more we restrict, the more unknowingly we make them want it.

Can parents spend enough time with children to make them aware of the flip side of the content? We do not even have enough time and discipline to regulate ourselves from consuming the content.

At the same time, educational content helps children learn the moral senses, science, societal elements and language as well. However, there is no regulation on the educational content's generation. Somebody says something in a video and another video on the same topic says something else altogether. Not that always content developers are aware of the facts, after all they refer to the unregulated content as well to make their own stuff.

What can help us in providing good and informative content to our children? Here is what I think might help, to the best of my understanding.

Strong and clear regulations governed by the educators and bureaucrats, not politicians or influencers, help bring discipline to the content generation in the first place. Regulating the content consumption is technically doable but tricky to implement, not impossible though.

Whether parents like it or not, it's not our money but our discipline and integrity are our children's greatest assets. We must continuously try to mould ourselves into becoming the most accurate and influential voices in our children's ears. For that, we must assess what we should consume and what we should not. Assessing is half of the job but the other half, probably the tougher job, is to follow our assessment to consume the right content.

Change must start at home - the gravity of this statement is too good to ignore. None of us are perfect, but all of us have beautiful human instincts that have helped humanity to see newer possibilities. We must embrace our strengths and make sure that human evolution is on the right track, our children are the next generation and we are living in their world, hence we hold the responsibility to create and consume the right content.

Content bomb is the most powerful weapon of our times, the trigger of which is in every fingertip. It entertains, it thrills but it also kills, not the person like speed does but the personality like nothing does.