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Train Up A Child In The Way He Should Go And When He Is Old He Will Not Depart From It |
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Thursday, 16 August 2007 |
 Richard O. Jones
Four of today's most popular young female celebrities are
negatively influenced by pop culture. They are Britney Spears, Paris Hilton,
Lindsay Lohan, and Nicole Richie. These girls are a mess, and young African
American girls are marching in their footsteps by aspiring to grow up too fast
as their hip-hop parents beat the marching drums.
Popular culture robs children of their childhood. Little
boys learn, the way of their immature parents, it's all right to develop their
feminine side before they develop their masculine side. I've mistaken so many longhaired,
earring-wearing little boys for cute little girls that I've lost count. I can't
imagine a boy at three or four years old being given a choice to look like a
boy or a girl would choose to look like a girl.
What are parents training their children to become? That's
the real question! What can a little girl who was wearing earrings and green
hair extensions at 10-years-old look forward to as a young woman? I have witnessed preschoolers with nose
rings. It's my guess that if it were legal, some parents would have their
babies professionally tattooed.
To train a child is like putting the child on track as a
train is on track. Once on track it takes a lot of doing to derail the train
and set it upon another track. Parents are training their children on a daily
basis. The eyes and minds of children are absorbing his or her total
environment. The products and styles children are born into often lays the
track for the train of their childhood and adulthood.
The secular world is a superficial place and children
trained in material values often lack in character. Popular culture has at
least a dozen TV shows that recklessly train children by example in the art of
lack of character, and backstabbing in the hope of success or fame. I don't
suggest that parents prohibit their children from watching popular shows
because the advertisements are impossible to miss. However, parents should be
mindful of and use such junk shows and music to open a discussion of what is
really going on. The question is: Who is really training your child? Are you
merely the strings of popular culture?
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