Today
when I turn on the TV it's harder and harder to find something I find worth
watching before I give up and turn it back off. I don't understand how it's
even a question of what we are doing wrong in raising children into productive,
well-mannered teens and young adults in our society. The ethics and morals
being taught to many kids today is via what they are watching on the TV. MTV
has 'Teen Mom', 'Real Life', 'Jersey Shore' and my new favorite (total sarcasm)
'I Want My Pants Back' watch this trailer video!! "start your boner J,.freezer girls
got your pants, and she's cute, funny and surprisingly filthy, and her crotch
"just looks angry"!" This is how to "figure life
out!"And these are just some of the shows that make me scream, "What
the hell?? Really??" I have children age 7 & 5 yr. old twins and cringe
at the thought of what will be the "hit show" that their peers will
being watching in 5-10yrs from now. I do not have a parenting style where I
keep them sheltered and think I can keep them from what life and the
world is really like. Foul language, sex, drugs, etc exist in our society and
all I can do as a parent I believe is prepare to handle situations and make
good decisions for themselves and dust themselves off and own their not so hot
decisions. I just wish the TV entertainment didn't make it harder with the shows they create and portray the glamorous and popular teen/young adult lifestyle in such a messed up wrong way!!
Ha I completely agree with a lot of your statements. Vh1 and MTV are putting some of the biggest loads of crap I have ever seen. The shows are complete mind-numbing garbage that seems to be appealing to them. I'm 18 and I enjoy a stupid show here and there, but it gets to a certain point, and when people try and mimic them, there not being cool at all, just turning into obnoxious people who think they are up with the newest trend. They have to put up better shows that are both entertaining yet informative.
ReplyDeleteThere is no question the people on some of the reality tv shows are incredibly..."unique individuals" but Some of the shows you mentioned have the opposite effect of what proposed. Teen mom in now way glorifies being a teen mom, I think if any thing there is probably an increase in contraception use and abstinence amongst people who watch the show because it shows how hard having a kid is. And true life probably has more value then most shows on tv, it follows people with life threatening ailments and tries to let the rest of the world know what they go through. Even the dumbest of the dumb shows (jersey shore) would only inspire similarly "unique individuals" to emulate the cast in which case something went wrong with said individuals rearing well before they reached the appropriate age to watch such shows. Maybe themtv shows don't help...but they are far from the core issue of "what we are doing wrong".
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with this, it seems that MTV and all of the mainstream Television has glorified being moronic, a teenage parent, and people that self tan themselves to look like something out of Willy Wonka. Who we choose to celebrate and make our celebrities says a lot about our society.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the Ooompah Loompah look is gross. These shows need to incorporate condom usage into the carefree f*** anyone lifestyle they promote. I bet her crotch does look scary VD is an ugly site on a woman and often hidden on men without many visual exterior symptoms. Use the motto NO GLOVE NO LOVE and by GLOVE I mean CONDOM or MOUTH DAM. Don't give and receive the gift that keeps on giving or kills you. Screw his pants that the price he paid for being with a ho'. She "earned" those pants the night before. People need to find personal value beyond what they find in their pants. That is not the Unity we speak of on our coat of arms.
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