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<blockquote data-quote="flutterbee" data-source="post: 41031"><p>According to our pediatrician, kids are hitting puberty younger than when I was a kid. I think those hormones in a child who has not had enough life experience yet to know how to handle certain situations certainly plays a role. However, I have always believed that self-esteem has a HUGE role in this as well. The glamorization of sex is huge, too. My kids hear me b*itch all the time about how women are always portrayed as objects (they have to be thin, beautiful, skimpily clad, etc) while men aren't. How many unattractive women do you see paired up with an attractive man on tv or in the movies? But the opposite is often true.</p><p></p><p>What's very worrisome are the studies lately that are showing that teenagers worry about becoming pregnant, but they aren't worried about stds, aids, or any of that. </p><p></p><p>You can block hollywood from entering your house, but I don't think you're going to block kids from seeing it. Instead, I use what they show on tv and in movies as an opportunity for discussion - to put what they see and hear into real world perspective. If they're going to see it and hear their friend's talking about it, I'd like for them to at least have another view and, hopefully, mom's voice in the back of their head.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterbee, post: 41031"] According to our pediatrician, kids are hitting puberty younger than when I was a kid. I think those hormones in a child who has not had enough life experience yet to know how to handle certain situations certainly plays a role. However, I have always believed that self-esteem has a HUGE role in this as well. The glamorization of sex is huge, too. My kids hear me b*itch all the time about how women are always portrayed as objects (they have to be thin, beautiful, skimpily clad, etc) while men aren't. How many unattractive women do you see paired up with an attractive man on tv or in the movies? But the opposite is often true. What's very worrisome are the studies lately that are showing that teenagers worry about becoming pregnant, but they aren't worried about stds, aids, or any of that. You can block hollywood from entering your house, but I don't think you're going to block kids from seeing it. Instead, I use what they show on tv and in movies as an opportunity for discussion - to put what they see and hear into real world perspective. If they're going to see it and hear their friend's talking about it, I'd like for them to at least have another view and, hopefully, mom's voice in the back of their head. [/QUOTE]
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