After I read this my husband listened while I made some lunch. We chatted over steak and eggs and your article prompted us to ask what is driving this numbness and acceptance.
We believe that it all started with adult's viewing habits which of course now has trickled down to a lowered or deranged idea and threshold of what is ok to show our kids because the images and stories we as adults are taking in are so radically low, violent, sexually explicit and extremely dark of tone.
Since the 1950's adults have voraciously gone lower and lower in the most insatiable manner when it comes to film, tv music videos and print ads.
My husband and I could not watch Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, Yellowstone and too many other shows and films to count. We felt we were living in an insane world as everyone loves dearly these shows. They are dark as can be. Munch's The Scream is how we feel while witnessing the media adults consume because everyone insists it's all so great-you just have to watch this or that and applaud to be cool. Our brains are rotted filmically and so now we want parents to be healthy of mind for their kid's viewing habits? Oh please. Not going to happen. Let's all take the blame here 100%.
normalization of aberrant behavior began back with the 1977 TV show SOAP and Billy Crystal's homosexual character. Hollywood kept pushing the envelope over the decades. more and more homosexual characters were included in TV shows, advertisements today regularly show same sex couples, fathers are rarely show in commercials
Interesting observation. Childhood and adolescents are tough enough on kids without complicating it more by meddling adults. What a sorry state an entire generation appears to be a victim of. Where are these adults now and have they woken up?
A very concise and insightful analysis of the show and the reasons why it had to happen. Choices children make at 3, 8, 15, should not have to be irrevocable. To rob children of the ability to dream and experiment is criminal.
What jumped out at me in that documentary was how the groomers sought to separate children from their parents. Driving a wedge between them was the way to get at the children and that is precisely the standard operating procedure of trans ideology. It’s an age old story of predators hiding in plain sight.
Children are very impressionable and vulnerable. Books (no not all books are appropriate for children, and it is an act of love to work to keep the toxic ones out of school libraries), TV shows, movies, etc. influence children more than adults often realize. The parent is or should be in charge. It is essential to feed a child's mind well as well as his stomach. A parent should teach a child biblical truth and an American parent should tell a child about true American history and civics (they are too often being fed junk in too many schools). This can be done even in cases where a parent is unable to homeschool. Don't make it a chore; make it a delight; kids are curious.
I also think beginning in the 90s parents in large numbers abdicated their role of teachers of values, morals and character to the state. At the same time teacher colleges were graduating young adults indoctrinated in this evil and insane social justice and believing this was their role at teachers. So empty headed children show up at the school doors ready to be ensconced in this crap.
After I read this my husband listened while I made some lunch. We chatted over steak and eggs and your article prompted us to ask what is driving this numbness and acceptance.
We believe that it all started with adult's viewing habits which of course now has trickled down to a lowered or deranged idea and threshold of what is ok to show our kids because the images and stories we as adults are taking in are so radically low, violent, sexually explicit and extremely dark of tone.
Since the 1950's adults have voraciously gone lower and lower in the most insatiable manner when it comes to film, tv music videos and print ads.
My husband and I could not watch Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, Yellowstone and too many other shows and films to count. We felt we were living in an insane world as everyone loves dearly these shows. They are dark as can be. Munch's The Scream is how we feel while witnessing the media adults consume because everyone insists it's all so great-you just have to watch this or that and applaud to be cool. Our brains are rotted filmically and so now we want parents to be healthy of mind for their kid's viewing habits? Oh please. Not going to happen. Let's all take the blame here 100%.
You rarticle is profound. It states the obvious which people avoid.
normalization of aberrant behavior began back with the 1977 TV show SOAP and Billy Crystal's homosexual character. Hollywood kept pushing the envelope over the decades. more and more homosexual characters were included in TV shows, advertisements today regularly show same sex couples, fathers are rarely show in commercials
Interesting observation. Childhood and adolescents are tough enough on kids without complicating it more by meddling adults. What a sorry state an entire generation appears to be a victim of. Where are these adults now and have they woken up?
A very concise and insightful analysis of the show and the reasons why it had to happen. Choices children make at 3, 8, 15, should not have to be irrevocable. To rob children of the ability to dream and experiment is criminal.
Thank you for writing this, Jenny, and writing every week. I look forward to your articles.
What jumped out at me in that documentary was how the groomers sought to separate children from their parents. Driving a wedge between them was the way to get at the children and that is precisely the standard operating procedure of trans ideology. It’s an age old story of predators hiding in plain sight.
Children are very impressionable and vulnerable. Books (no not all books are appropriate for children, and it is an act of love to work to keep the toxic ones out of school libraries), TV shows, movies, etc. influence children more than adults often realize. The parent is or should be in charge. It is essential to feed a child's mind well as well as his stomach. A parent should teach a child biblical truth and an American parent should tell a child about true American history and civics (they are too often being fed junk in too many schools). This can be done even in cases where a parent is unable to homeschool. Don't make it a chore; make it a delight; kids are curious.
TV today is garbage.
I also think beginning in the 90s parents in large numbers abdicated their role of teachers of values, morals and character to the state. At the same time teacher colleges were graduating young adults indoctrinated in this evil and insane social justice and believing this was their role at teachers. So empty headed children show up at the school doors ready to be ensconced in this crap.
True. Another leisure activity I gave up 30 plus years ago. I would rather read, write, hunt or fish.
How about the deadly British “Teletubbies?”
Sheesh 🙄