Tell Your Kids to Worship the Celebrity!

It is so easy to have self doubt. In our society self esteem is brain washed into nonexistense. Everyone in the magazines and on TV and in the movies are all beautiful or skinny to a point that looks unhealthy. They don''t praise people in the spotlight that are bigger than a size two. Where is that supposed to leave the rest of us? Wishing and dreaming unrealistically. Nobody is grateful anymore for what their ma and pa gave them. No one looks for their one beauty but rather wishes for somebody elses. In the fifties it was the womans job to tend to the house, in the sixties who can remember, the seventies saw womens activism shoot way up, the eighties women moving into the workplace with more respect, the nineties woman proved they are forces to be reckoned with. Now we are into the next century and we are raising our daughters in a world where more kids know who Paris Hilton is than Dick Cheney. My generation is out of touch with reality. We are more concerned with who is on myspace than who is running for office. This is ridiculous! We are parents now. Shouldn't we give a damn about the world around us? I am guilty of it too. I find myself engrossed in Entertainment Tonight but when the real news comes up its time to change the channel. If we don't take accountibility for ourselves and recognize the need to change then who will teach our kids? I am not perfect or better than anyone else, I just want the best for my kids. I find it very difficult to deal with the road that is ahead of my children. Instead of our kids learning through TV and magazines what is "hot", why not take a more hands on approach and teach them what is important? The definition of a celebrity is 1)The state of being celebrated; 2)A celebrated person. So I say "tell your kids to worship the celebrity....within themselves!" Not the ones on the cover of STAR and US weekly.