Found an interesting article today, yesterday I thought that the main influences on our youth’s premature adult lifestyles were media, celebrities and their peers.But ha ha, this article adds another influence which I totally didn’t think of until after reading it.
The parents.
This doesn’t really happen much here in New Zealand because we don’t have that plastic lifestyle intertwined in our culture yet.But, in this article it discusses mothers taking their daughters in to get their eyebrows,upper lip and bikini lines waxed.One of the girls only being 8 years old!There are two reasons for this which you’ll read in the article but still..if 8 isn’t too young, then what is?!
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Introduction
What are we getting up to today?
There are so many things today that are influencing the way in which our youth view themselves, how they act, what they do and who they choose to become..
In my blog, i want to talk about how the young people of today are trying so hard to be older than they are, wanting to experience everything earlier than what they're emotionally ready for.Basically, growing up too fast!
Only a few years ago, i was in the early years of high school.After school and in the weekends, you'd find me hanging out with my friends.Going to the movies, camping in the backyard, making crafts,riding bikes all that cool fun stuff that everyone around my age did for fun. I didn't start to wear make-up until i was 16.Boys weren't really that big of a deal for me until a couple of years ago, and the only parties i went to were my family barbeques. But, my gosh how things have changed!.I'm in my first year of university, and i have a little brother who is in his first year of high school.The things that he knows about at his age just astounds and shocks me. He's only 13 and yet he knows so much more about sex than i did at his age, probably more than i do now.Which i s so disturbing to me because he is my little brother.Showing me his Bebo profile, i see many of his friends are girls his age and in their profile pictures they're dressing even more suggestively than i do! Honestly, when i was his age relationships and all that boy/girl stuff was the furtherest thing from my mind.The recreational choices of our pre-teens today are miles and miles away from what they used to be when i was growing up. With this generation being brought up in a technology savvy era. Our children are constantly being bombarded with different lifestyle messages everyday, with mostly all of them coming from the media, celebrities, favourite tv/movie/sports stars. With so many new reality tv shows being documented on the lives of famous celebrities, the children of this generation are basically being raised with the ideals taken from these peoples lives..
There are so many things today that are influencing the way in which our youth view themselves, how they act, what they do and who they choose to become..
In my blog, i want to talk about how the young people of today are trying so hard to be older than they are, wanting to experience everything earlier than what they're emotionally ready for.Basically, growing up too fast!
Only a few years ago, i was in the early years of high school.After school and in the weekends, you'd find me hanging out with my friends.Going to the movies, camping in the backyard, making crafts,riding bikes all that cool fun stuff that everyone around my age did for fun. I didn't start to wear make-up until i was 16.Boys weren't really that big of a deal for me until a couple of years ago, and the only parties i went to were my family barbeques. But, my gosh how things have changed!.I'm in my first year of university, and i have a little brother who is in his first year of high school.The things that he knows about at his age just astounds and shocks me. He's only 13 and yet he knows so much more about sex than i did at his age, probably more than i do now.Which i s so disturbing to me because he is my little brother.Showing me his Bebo profile, i see many of his friends are girls his age and in their profile pictures they're dressing even more suggestively than i do! Honestly, when i was his age relationships and all that boy/girl stuff was the furtherest thing from my mind.The recreational choices of our pre-teens today are miles and miles away from what they used to be when i was growing up. With this generation being brought up in a technology savvy era. Our children are constantly being bombarded with different lifestyle messages everyday, with mostly all of them coming from the media, celebrities, favourite tv/movie/sports stars. With so many new reality tv shows being documented on the lives of famous celebrities, the children of this generation are basically being raised with the ideals taken from these peoples lives..
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