It's funny how having a baby really changes your perspective of life and things that I have brushed off before really get on my nerves now. Specifically, I look at the celebrities that today's kids admire and look up to and frankly I'm appalled. Maybe I just don't remember it or wasn't exposed (maybe my parents had the right idea of not having cable!), but I don't recall the celebrities of our decade being so raunchy and belligerent. We grew up watching Full House and Boy Meets World. Shows that always had, as corny as they may be, good moral lessons.
Nowadays, all you see all over the news are inappropriately dressed celebrities setting horrible examples for kids claiming that "You're supposed to be a mess in your 20s" or 40-year old men singing about "getting nasty".
Raising my kids well is probably one of my biggest fears in life. Today's "Role Models" really scare me for what my kids will have to look up to in the future. I guess all I can do is try to raise them to be honest, sensible young adults who don't get sucked into the behaviors that will be displayed in front of them around every corner.
I recently read a great blog that concerns this topic and if you have a few minutes, it's a really good read:
http://givenbreath.com/2013/09/03/fyi-if-youre-a-teenage-girl/
