recently i read a news article about a woman who was shopping and she came out to a note on her car. wrapped in side the note was not only $10 or $20, but $50 worth of cash for what i believed was a crack in her windshield, i may be wrong about this considering i don't fully remember the article from a few days ago, but that isn't really the point. the note basically said, "i have been there before, i hope this helps out," or something a long those lines. give me credit, i tried to remember. the point i'm getting at was it was a complete stranger saw someone in a point of need and took it upon them self to help out, without any need or concern for repayment.
today we are so focused on ourselves and our own needs we seem to sometimes forget what our own family needs. we are so focused on pushing ourselves ahead that we depend on others, and in many times the media, to raise our own children. despite how negative that may sound, if you really think about it, it is true. kids these days are brought up on the couch either watching television or playing video games. we blame the media so many times on the negative impact it has on our children, yet we don't take the time to teach them right from wrong. we don't take the time to teach them about sex at a proper age, yet we blame the schools for teaching it younger and younger.
today our media is attacked on a daily basis about its role in people's lives, yet those who blame the media refuse to acknowledge the cause of the negative impact. video games seem to get rougher and rougher, with more blood and shooting, as Hollywood seems to get thinner and thinner. our boys today see that violence is the answer to many problems because the games they are focused on become more and more violent. our daughters gain disorders as people like Kim Kardashian and the likes seem to get thinner and thinner.
we sit at the table, or go to conferences, and complain and moan and groan that our society is getting worse and worse. even today i go to work at the restaurant i work at, and listen to people complain about how the media is getting worse and worse and how it is rotting our younger generation to the core. to be honest it takes a lot out of me to keep my mouth shut. i have never been one to keep my opinions to myself, but at times i have to, this is one of those times. when i hear this i want to pull up a chair and ask, "what is it you do all day? when was the last time you sat down and played a board game and actually spent quality time with your child?" i don't do this because i know i will loose my job seeing as people take their parenting skills as a direct attack on them, as they should.
parents today refuse to take responsibility for the way their child is raised. know one sends a direct paycheck to the media for babysitting their child, yet we expect the media to raise them properly and teach them right from wrong. who are we to blame the media when the media was never given the proper background check to make sure they are ok to raise a child?
i no way am i condoning the show "Honey Boo-Boo" or whatever it is. in no way i am i condoning their way of life. i am not one to judge as i don't like to be judged myself. people, even myself, talked down on them because they are the poster family for "red-neck white trash." (FYI I DO NOT MEAN THAT IN A NEGATIVE WAY IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM, I JUST CAN'T THINK OF ANY OTHER WAY TO PUT IT.) to be completely honest though, i have to say, Hollywood did not in anyway take over their life. they still live like they did before, they still have their same values, the only negative thing i can say about that family (and you can't say you wouldn't do the same thing), they cashed in on their fame because they knew it wouldn't last long.
there is two positive things i can say about that family, 1) they are a true family. from the episodes i have seen, they are what i talk about. they spend time together, they love each other, they do things as a family. 2) the mother never cashed in financially in a negative way. from the reports i have heard, she has stashed the money away for her daughter's schooling. how many of us would have done that living in their situation? i can probably say, very few of us would have been that responsible.
today the media has a negative impact on everything we say and do, and i will have future blogs talking about this, from fashion to physical appearance. the sad part is, we all fall for all of it, but today we blame a lot of our children's behavior on the media rather than taking the responsibilities ourselves. i know people who have raised their children on video games, yet are upset because that is all they do. we blame the ever growing children having children problems on the media such as MTV and such, but yet we refuse to sit down and talk about the birds and the bees because it takes to much out of our time, and God forbid we take a moment to talk to our children.
this blog is probably one of the more negative ones i have written, yet i see so much negativity thrown around, yet we refuse to take responsibility for the negativity we have caused. when i was growing up, we had shows such as Boy Meets World, Who's The Boss, The Wonder Years. comedies that were directed towards family time such like today's Big Bang Theory, and.....sadly i can't think of to many family directed shows. we are so negative with shows like Two And A Half Men, Teen Mom and stuff like that, things directed towards the younger crowd and less towards family.
we blame the media for shows that are directed towards teens, yet they are the ones watching them. we blame the media for the negative shows, yet we refuse to sit down and watch them with them. today the media knows there is less family time and more "we are the babysitter" so the direct TV towards the group watching it. we can't blame the media for being a horrible babysitter, when we never did a back ground check on it to begin with. i guess my question is, if you won't let someone into your home to watch your kids without a proper back ground check or references or asking someone about them, then why do you let the media (who is worse then the teenage girl you brought in) watch them for you?
*disclaimer - this was not meant as a negative attack on anyone
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