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 Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:41 pm
There's an abundance of poor role models present in today's popular culture.
Jamie Lynn Spears, Brittney's 16 year old sister * star of Nickelodeon's "Zoey 101" has been reported to be pregnant.
Lindsey Lohan has had quite the run-in with rehab in the past few months.
Do you let your daughters still watch their shows after all of the negative attention in the media?
I understand that it's people's own business as to whether they have sex, have a baby, or consume recreational drugs, but when you're a public icon for millions of young girls in the world, then it becomes the paparazzi's business.
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:46 pm
Hee did you know that the mother spears wrote a parenting book... her publisher wont publish it, lol.
most kids when watching the show, see the charater of the show not so much the actor, and the charater isnt the one getting knocked up or doing drugs
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Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 9:33 pm
Some people ban shows/books/etc. for numerous reasons. (For example, I know someone who won't let their children see The Golden Compass because of Philip Pullman's anti-dogma views he put into his movie, without seeing it first herself or seeing it with them so she can explain what is wrong with the picture in her opinion)
I think that it's great that LiLo has at least attempted rehab (whether court ordered or not) and that Jamie Lynn wants to raise her baby in her home state.
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 2:19 pm
I think a parent has every right to limit what thier children see if the actors are presenting bad role models. Even if the characters are decent role models, kids get very attracted to actors once they are old enough to understand that people *play roles* on TV (rather than really young children who just think that people are superheroes and suchlike) and many of them look up what thier favorite actresses are doing on the internet.
I think if people stopped watching the shows, it would maybe (hopefully?) send a message to the media that Parents don;t want to see negative influences being alloowed to make money rfom our children.
That might just be a pipe dream, but I'm personally sick of hearing all the stuff these actresses get away with and still they are stars of popular teen shows. Sooner or later that information trickles down to the children.
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:43 am
If the show itself is appropriate, I don't see any problems with letting kids watch.
The actors and the characters are entirely different. If the issue is the girls are looking up to the actors as role models, then the parent should have stepped in and had extensive conversations about the actors and how what they're doing isn't best for everyone. It's important for parents to talk with their kids and keep that kind of relationship from the very beginning. Kids don't like to be treated like kids, and I don't plan on treating my son like one. I think that talking about situations/people/etc in which your kids are interested is something that they will not only enjoy doing, but will benefit from in the long run.
For example, my mom was like that with me. She and I were constantly talking, she treated me like I was an adult and told me that I could do anything (when I would try to lift a hugely heavy box far beyond my ability, she would let me try. She never tried to limit me, in that aspect), if I set my mind to it.
Every parent tries to do the latter, but the conversations and insight really helped me develop into an intelligent person. I alienated myself from the other kids because of it, but I also didn't end up like many of my high school peers: flunking out and with a bun in the oven. Imagine a 1st grade kid with a 9th grade reading level and reacting to the other kids like an adult would (seeing 2nd grade girls wearing training bras, for example, would confuse me, at that age. Why wear a training bra when you don't have boobs? Or when one girl in 4th grade said "Stop the press, she ain't got no breasts!" I replied "... I'm 10. Of course I don't!"). It's practically unheard of in this age of 12 year old pregnancies and children getting drunk and high at younger and younger ages.
I feel that part of this problem is not the TV shows that kids watch or the lives of the actors on said shows. It's the parents' lack of interest in their kids. I constantly see children being shoved in front of a TV so that the parent can have some alone time. While it's important for a parent to get alone time, and TV isn't 100% bad, the TV should not be a replacement for a parent's influence or care.
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:14 am
Personally I am pretty shocked and disapointed with the behavior of young starlets and their parents. Who is to blame, though? The parents for contributing to their childs outrageous behavior, their agents for possibly encouraging some of this behavior as "any publicity is good publicity", the media for making their actions cover page stories - or US, who eat up the gossip..
Worst cases:
Britney & Jamie Lynn Spears. Hmm - 2 kids in the same family having similar behavior issues. I think that their Mother could very possibly be a serious contributing factor here... these kids are out of control!
Lindsey Lohan - She is reckless and dangerous. Any "normal" person who has done some of the things she has done would have found themselves in Juvie or Jail at some point in their lives.
What really bothers me most is when I see pictures of these kids/semi-adults with their Mothers. The mothers are like 40 year old teenagers. They look like their kids party pal, not like their Mother. They dress way too young for their age and seem to thrive off their childrens stardom. Are they simply living vicariously through their kids?? That is what it looks like. In my area, these parents would be "Trailer Trash".
It is really sad. It seems to have gotten much worse in this generation. In my generation, we had Madonna and her crazy, sexual antics... but I cannot think of another who had such an extreme reputation. Now it seems like we have a battle for the "Bad Girl" reputation.
I actually feel badly for Britney Spears. She seems as though she is a little "slow" and possibly has a learning disability or something else. She certainly has some serious psychological issues. She went from being a huge star to a big joke. Sadly, she seems as though she really wants to be a good mother to her children, but she lacks the capacity to do so.
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