Children growing to maturely

If i hear that excuse one more time im going to explode lol. Blame media, blame clothes, blame music...feel free if it extinguishes your guilt! It's us that do this damage..it's the place and society that are grooming these kids at a young age. Iraq wars.. poverty.. disease.. rising in crime and neglect.. todays kids dont need to watch television to witness the results.. they live it! Everytime you swear or argue in front of a child..every racist comment you make they breathe it in like gold dust. Children have always been eagre to grow up too fast but if what they see and learn on the streets and with their parents is continuous bitter thoughts then thats what they learn and thats what they will try to do to 'act' grown up. Young children..as you correctly say are growing up faster.. where i used to live there was a pregnant 10 year old. How can you blame the television for a pregnant 10 year old?

Because she sees her idols have public relationships. She sees Hannah Montana talk about boyfriends, setting people up, etc. She fell into the trap, had to have a boyfriend to be 'in' and got pregnant! Unless of course she was raped, which is another matter entirely. Yes, it's a terrible world we live in and parents do have to take part of the blame. I'm not extinguishing my guilt. I know what I'm talking about. I saw my daughter's kindergarten class go from wearing nice kids clothes to immitating Hannah Montana. They wear the clothes (which btw I consider too trashy especially on the little ones they are marketing it to) and they all think they need boyfriends, need to hold hands, and even kiss. Yes, I sat my daughter down, who fortunately doesn't like the show and didn't get dragged along, and I had a long talk with her. But it's the media and the stores, who push this. All in the name of profit. I should not have to have the birds and the bees talk with a six year old! Now go ahead and explode. It's a scientific fact that the media has a big influence on the kids and a big negative influence. You can close your eyes to that, if you want. That has been going on for a long time. Slowly but surely the media dropped restraints, allowed swearing etc. Long before the current generation of parents of young kids came along. And yes, the negative influence of violent and bad-language promoting videogames has also been proven. Something my generation has already been subjected to. That lowers the moral threshold significantly. Fact is, even in well mannered church going and otherwise morally correct non-cursing non-bad behavior showing families kids do get exposed to stuff like that through the media and peers. Parenting has become much harder even in good neighborhoods. I feel sorry for you. You must be growing up in a very sad environment. Your screenname already tells a lot about you as well as your post. There seems to be a lot of despair and neglect you feel, even probably from your own parents. At your age, parents are often at a loss when their child changes and shows attitude. I don't knwo what you watch, which videogames you play, what music you are listening to, but my guess is, it's probably something your parents have been quoting to you as a bad influence, maybe even forbade you to watch, play, listen to that stuff. Just guessing here based on your reaction, which is typical btw for a teenager, lol. When you grow up, have kids of your own, you'll see where we come from.