DYNAMITE!!

I find that too many people are trying to place the blame on the influences of mass media. I strongly believe that we cannot stop what our children are being exposed to. Therefore, why not try to develop a sense of understanding and self fulfilling happiness.
My main problem is that there are parents out there that have the need to buy their children’s love. I don’t have children yet but many of my friends do and I can see from other areas in my life that no one wants to say ‘No’ to their children. Instead they just buy them what they want or give them anything to compromise for the absence of the working parents. They feel guilty for their absence and need to buy their kids love because they are working so hard to give them the perfect life. What’s left after their bedroom is full of toys that will never be enough…a spoiled child that will grow up thinking that what they have is never enough.
I grew up looking at all the silly magazines. I always wanted the new thing that there was out their, but I seldom got it. Once in a blue moon my mother gave into what I desperately had to have to fit into the cool crowd. Other than that she made me learn that I would not die with out it. Most importantly she made the time to love me and provide me with the emotional response that I think kids need, but don’t necessarily get.
Children will be bombarded with these types of ads for the rest of their lives and into adult hood. They just have to learn to differentiate the things that are just material for money sake or something that they could really use. They may just realize how to be happy with what they get instead of the need to replace it in 2 months, or less.