What A World? What A World!

OMG! The Today Show is on in the background as I think of stories to add to my blog. How many times do we have to be inundated with the infamous Miley Cyrus photos?

On the flip side, what about last month & the big controversy of a 50 year old Jamie Lee Curtis showing off her bare shoulders on the cover of AARP. We've seen more of her in the 80's than we did in that photo.

But back to Cyrus!

Come on people first of all the pictures are not that big of a freakin’ deal. They’s not THAT racy .Ohhh! We see her bare back. Can someone refresh my memory here? Was there such an uproar back in the 70's when Brooke Shields played a prepubescent prostitute running around naked in Louis Malle’s Pretty Baby.

Besides how many pre teens are reading Vanity Fair anyway.

I guess the point I’m trying to make here, there are worse things being done by kids older and younger, famous (The Spears girls) and not so famous (the polyemist cult) than Cyrus.

But, if we have to go through the process of placing the blame let’s put it in its proper place. The parents! They allowed the pictures to be taken. They were present when the pictures were taken. I am also sure afterwards they given final approval on what pictures to use and publish.

We are living in a world where our kids are growing up fast. I’m not saying that we need to shut the kids off from the world until adulthood, but to be aware of what is out there in the world.
It is important that parents and guardians do their best to monitor what and how the kids see things and to be prepared to have open & honest discussions with them.

Also let the kids be kids and enjoy those early years of innocense. It doesn’t last!

I know I’m not a parent and I know there are things about me and my life that my nephew & nieces don’t know. They are very young and they don’t need to know at this stage of the game. But I feel I do have responsibility & time to prepare if I do inquire about me in the future. Also, since I am the uncle, I do have the responsibility to not answer any of their inquires until I have a prpper discussion with their parents. Because like I said previous if the parents are present in their lives, they have final say in what should and should not be discussed with the children.

Am I wrong?