Replies to '03/27 Fifteen Minutes of Fame'

I think it's like a drug, a rush of adrenaline that we're exposed to.  It's entertainment heroin, and we need more and more of it to produce the desired response.  I think youre helping your kids not to be addicted to this type of deluded "entertainment", or really, sick fascination.

 

I agree with you about the "ME" generation, but I don't think every baby boomer hands things out to their kids, either.  That's one thing I absolutely abhor about my own generation, we're a bunch of "daddy's girls (or "momma's boys") with a heavy sense of entitlement.  Yet, at the same time, rejection is almost impossible for us to take, so here we are, set up for failure from the beginning.  Also, while we're expected to achieve the sky high goals, we're expected to "one up" the previous generation.  Hmm...

My daughter is 9, and she LOVES to watch the Disney channel, and even the shows are kid shows, they show some things that I can't understand why they show it.  For instance, That's so Raven: they have a girl gang who terrorizes everyone, and on several episodes, Raven, of course.  They throw balls at Raven, one big black girl who was the Mexican girl leader's "enforcer" put a toliet seat around Raven, and forced her to walk out in the hall during passing with everyone laughing at her, they threw paper wads at her, and yet the teachers did nothing about it.  No one said anything about it.  I get very angry whenver those episodes are on, and I angrily told my daughter I can't believe they show that, I mean it was a prime time Disney show.  It promotes bullying IMO.  I said that I can't believe the parents didn't say anything to the principal about that or how the teachers and the principal even let that go on, and my daughter told me it was just a show.  Just a show?  I sort of laughed, but I didn't like what it was protraying-glamourizing bullying.  On that show, Life with Derek, or whatever, that show just plain gets on my nerves.  Derek farts and belches and I think that this tells kids that its alright to do that.  I don't agree with that.  I think you need to go somewhere private, such as the bathroom if you are going to do that, and as for belching-it is glamourizing bad manner.  And that Casey character, her story line is so dated.  Maybe it would of worked thirty years ago, but the women's lib thing is so over and done with.  I get tired of the character's idiocy.  It seems that all the shows that my daughter watches, except for the odious Full House show bad manners, disprespectfulness for adults, etc.  I think the reason for the Me generation is that primetime shows promote to kids that they are smarter than the adults.  How many times do we see the teenagers telling the parents what for instead of the parents, and as the teenagers walk off, the parents are just standing there, looking stupid?  I think this is telling kids to be disrespectful and parents are just accepting it.  I am so disgusted with tv anymore, and I never thought I would be, since I'm addicted to it, it seems.  But I usually have to listen to my daughter's Disney and Nick, Jr. crap and then I get to watch my stuff later on.  Even innocent shows have what I think is inappropriate.  We love My Name is Earl, and a couple of times, I've had to change it because there might be a sex scene or something.  Then when I think its safe, I change it back.  Its so sad what a sick society we have become from television.