So Much To Think About

Last Wednesday was the season finale of The Baby Borrowers. Yesterday they aired an episode entitled, "The Baby Borrowers: Lessons Learned." They recapped the season, asking the teens about their experience (none of the teens want to be parents any time soon, but don't feel like they'll never be parents. Incidentally, all of the teen couples have broken up since the show ended, too).

A portion of the Lessons Learned episode focused on the messages that young people are facing these days; so many beautiful, young, unmarried girls announcing to the celebrity magazines, "It's true! I'm pregnant!" and sounding so thrilled about it. Getting pregnant and earning a GED all at once must seem like the cool thing to do. One of the panelists on the show mentioned that today's teens are more savvy than we give them credit for and view celebrities like Jamie Lynn Spears not as a role model, but as someone to learn from. Still, Hollywood moms get so much publicity: for example, why is does this poll even exist, and why is it on the Teen Hollywood website??

I find it really interesting (and somewhat refreshing like chugging a nice cold glass of milk after ingesting a dozen chocolate chip cookies worth of dough--I was thinking of making cookies tonight, so it's sort of on the brain...) that amongst all this I've come across these articles:

How To Raise A Geek, And Why You Should

Raising a Well-Rounded Kid The option to listen to the show is above the article. It's about 45 minutes long--I didn't get a chance to listen to the whole thing, but I like the premise of "regulating and controlling some of the influences of pop culture so that it's our values that are driving our decisions for our children, and not just what everyone else is doing or what the media is telling our children what they should be doing to be happy." Not that parents should make every decision for their kids by any means. Part of raising a well-rounded kid involves letting children be a bit self-reliant when appropriate. Thus, it's really important for them to know where their parents stand and that they stand firmly.

I feel like there's still a lot to think about on this subject, but I'd rather go to bed for now. So I might just mull this over some more and address it some other time...

To Be Continued?...