Friday, June 19, 2009
Prosti-tots
I don't like everything that the magazines picture or write about. I don't like the majority of clothes found on racks in every store meant for girls of all ages. I don't like the way you can't watch an entire movie or TV show without seeing something in reference to sex. The fact remains, companies will only make and sell what we will buy. We can talk until we're all blue in the face about how horrible it is to stand in a check-out line at Wal-Mart and see fifteen half-naked women on magazine covers and how damaging this must be to the morals of our youth but, we still pay to see them up there. It is very hard as a parent to fight the peer-pressure of every other child that goes to school with our own kids and I think, for the most part, we've lost the idea that it takes a village to raise a child. It seems like we are all on our own these days but, on the up side, statistics are showing that teen pregnancy is down and there is nothing to show that girls are becoming sexually active at a younger age than previous generations. It is hard these days to take the time to really be an example to our kids. Some parents may even be the people in their child's life that they see the least and that truly is tragic. Even in cases like that, parents have a little bit of time to show their children what's really important. I think it all boils down to remembering that we are allowed to have expectations and guidelines, that we decide what we will and wont buy, that living our values is far more powerful than preaching them, and that it is possible to hold our kids to our standards even in the face of pressure from the media.
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In every generation there has always been some type of contreversial or moral issue that the media exploits. In my generation it was the life of drugs sex and rock and roll. Parents of my generation say that the controversy in their generation was the also the free love and that rock and roll was thought to be an influence of satin. What I am getting at is that today's world has not changed much from my generation of the 70's in that sex and drugs were promoted by the media. The article Girls gone Bad stated it so well in the end. The article pointed out that even the most withdrawn teens scrutinize their parents for cues on how to act. So watch your benavior, it further states Partens need to understand and talk about the things that interest their kids without being judgemental. We need to hear where our kids are comming from and gently direct them into thinking about it. So that means parents time with their kids needs to involve discussion and paying attention to their kids.
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