A friend told me to be blogging every Friday so I'm making a special effort too...though technically its around 1.30 am on Saturday...potato,potayto..
My niece is becoming a teenager. She's twelve going on Hollywood. Today's kids are a scary lot, they have strange music to listen to, they don't play outside as much as we did, they are so technologically savvy at an early age. My five year old niece told my sister-in-law that she wants an ipad for her birthday and I wouldn't be surprised if she actually knew how to use it...
When songs come on television I feel like I'm being bombarded by the noise of monkeys hitting on cans. The songs don't make sense and the dressing or lack thereof is particularly alarming. My niece wants to be just like Rihanna. So I asked her what exactly she liked in Rihanna. She says she wants to be pretty and famous.......No there is nothing else more profound if you are waiting for it. I don't know about the rest of you but that scares me. She spends hours with her friends poring over magazines with the latest fashion (which to me consists of wearing either your en year old sister's clothes or pre-shrinking them then squeezing your mass into it)
I have become a really suspiscious person because of it. I toy with the idea of reading pages of her diary or listening in on her conversations with her friends...ok so I'm a bit neurotic but anyone with a teenager in the house would identify. They mature so fast now, whenever she is in her home wear a few eyes will loook at her a bit longer than I'm comfortable with (or so it seems to me) so I think I will make a T-shirt that says "I'm 12" "I'm not legal yet" "Feel like some jailtime?" "chemical castration is a reality" :) sigh...wouldn't that be nice...
God bless
