March 2, 2008

• According to Observation.

  We can give thanks to the media for demoralizing our youth. I have two younger sisters. The older is thirteen, and in her friends I already see girls with caked on makeup, talking about sex, dating, kissing, making out, and whoring themselves all over MySpace. My little sister even asked for a thong about two years ago. I’m like, “Whoa.” To tell you the truth, I didn’t buy a thong to show off or to seduce guys [HAH, I had no idea how to do that at the age of when I got one, which was freshman year], I got a thong so I wouldn’t show panty lines. Panty lines are pretty embarrassing, but anyway, back on topic. I don’t understand what’s going on in these kids heads. Just because you see it on MTV, doesn’t mean you should be copying it. Sometimes I feel that they should have a disclaimer on every television show as they do with Jackass, because younger kids are being exposed to it, and having sex. Sex is seriously the main issue I’m worried about with younger kids, because being ready to have a child is being emotionally and financially stable, and I’m sure 13 year olds aren’t either of those. It pretty much blows my mind knowing that these kids know how to have sex, because it took me the longest time to figure out how it works after I heard about sex.

  But what really got me thinking about this is when I look at my youngest sister. She’s currently ten, almost eleven. We all have the generalization that as time goes by, the more scantily clad our kids get, but when I was talking to my sister, I realized she is utterly innocent. Everything about her is innocent. She is pure and uncorrupt, besides the fact that she holds vices like those of selfishness, but most children have to be taught to share. At her age, I don’t think I was that innocent. I’m sure I had some sense of puberty and knew that babies didn’t come from storks or just plainly from a man and a woman loving each other, not that I was expriencing either, but I just was aware of both. I didn’t understand sex, but I knew it made babies. My youngest sister doesn’t even know what a period is, let alone sex. I don’t think she has the slightest idea what puberty is. She’s due for a watered down sex/puberty education class this year. I have no idea how she’s going to react, but then again, my family doesn’t know the real me, and that could be true for my sister. I hope it’s not. I applaud her for staying so innocent. She chose the right people to surround herself with and didn’t let curiosity kill the cat. Well, she definitely wouldn’t let it kill the cat since cats are her favorite animals ever, but that’s just a figure of speech. I’m just afraid of how she’s going to react going to middle schools, where little kids get sexed up to show off. I really hope she handles that exposure well because I sure didn’t. Not that I got sexed up, but I had a recession in my self-esteem.

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