A PAINFUL CHANGE

He rushed out of the sitting room and rushed into his room. 

He came out with a glee on his eyes and clutching his Ukulele like a clown seeing the crowd spray money on his partner during a routine boring comical show. He was ready to bawl songs with the figure on TV.

The sound coming from the first-generation, non-smart, outdated Samsung 32" LCV TV on the wall was 'BOYFRIEND' by Justin Bieber on MTV Base.

 

I, after, threats of not renewing the DSTV subscription for the next month was allowed to switch the Cable Channel after being ruthlessly assaulted by Mickey Mouse, Oso, Handy Manny, Sponge Bobs by the tiny domestic terrorists I call my sons ably supported by their accomplice Sherrivon Uzy Okoronkwo.

I cannot afford a DSTV DUAL VIEW DECODER in Nigeria that enables one watch different Satellite TV Channels in different rooms and make do with threats of not paying for subscriptions to watch my favorite channels now and then. The boys have hijacked the TV set.

Giovanni stared at the TV set for a tortuous 1 minute and let out a piercing wail like a banshee, "Daddy, this is not JUSTIN BIEBER." Giovanni grew up LOVING Justin and his bawling of songs like 'Baby! Baby!! Baby!!! OH!!!!', 'Never Say Never', 'Never let go' and his all-time favorite 'Mistletoe'.

The Justin he saw on MTV singing 'BOYFRIEND' was different, grown and had a gruffy voice. I took time out to explain to a 4-yr old that Justin had grown, attained puberty, had a girlfriend and would not be singing for him again.

He went back to the room, dropped his Ukulele, came back to the sitting room and held me.

He was morose and taciturn. I held him, switched back to Disney Junior where OSO was fooling himself, as usual, as a Special Agent. My son loves OSO and temporarily forgot about Justin Selena Gomez Bieber.

A painful transition for Giovanni.