Momma, Don't Let Your Kids Grow Up to be Adults

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It seems to be a documented phenomenon. Our children are growing up faster and faster every generation. Media blazes images of smart talking, precocious children. Clothing industries tailor their clothes skimpier and skimpier each year. News is broadcast to make sure a fifth grader can understand it. Parents are coming from freer home lives. Is it really any wonder that our children act years older than they are? Walking through any department store children's section, we are bombarded on all sides by miniature versions of our own wardrobes...and we all know how tiny our clothes are getting. Not that super twins, Mary Kate and Ashley, are helping the matter any. I digress. What I'm really wondering is why, as parents, we aren't exerting more control over our young ones lives? You know your parents made sure you knew when you were acting older than you should. You know your parents tried to give a childhood, not just a facsimile. We grew up slower. We grew up happier with a tenth less stress. Why, then, are we not affording our own children that same opportunity. Just because Little Johnny says everyone else is doing it doesn't mean we as parents have to allow him to. We weren't allowed to watch television with adult humor. We didn't get taken to rated R movies by Mom and Dad. Why, why, why, why are we trying to be our kids best friends? And for the love of all, why are we blaming society for it? Your thoughts, all around the world. So many different societies differ in so many ways. So, please, what is your perspective on the whole matter?