When we’re kids, all we want to do is grow up, and once we’re adults all we want to do is go back to being kids. Life sucks.
As kids, we grow up too fast. Kids today seem to be growing up way faster than before because society just doesn’t let kids be kids anymore. Parents are rushing kids into adulthood way too fast.
Take for example those freakish little pageants that parents put their kids in. You know the ones that have three-year-olds in swimsuit competitions. The parents put their kids in the competitions anyway because they help to “build confidence.”Like I haven’t heard that before.
Parents use that same excuse to put their kids into sports at young ages. I don’t have a huge problem with this, but when the parents get way too into it and are screaming curse words from the crowd, I feel like saying, “Come on, Dad, it’s just tee-ball.” And by the way, sports only build confidence if your kid is actually good at them.
Another example is technology. Kids are picking up on this stuff too fast. I didn’t get a cell phone until I was in 7th grade. Now I see kids all the time that are four or five with cell phones. I mean you’re four. You don’t even have friends yet. Your contacts can only consist of Mom, Dad, and Grandpa.
In the past, Saturday morning was the one place where a kid could be a kid. However, now every cartoon is loaded with these stupid drug Public Service Announcements that are meant to scare kids into never doing drugs. I remember watching these as a kid and just being more confused about drugs and thinking, “Maybe if I do some drugs I’ll understand this commercial.” But thank God those commercials were on. Now, no one does drugs. Thanks, D.A.R.E.
When you’re a little kid, you don’t care about drugs. You don’t even know what drugs are. Maybe if we didn’t throw these scare tactics into young kids’ faces, they wouldn’t do drugs. It’s not like these commercials work. When are you ever at a party where people say no to alcohol or drugs because they saw a commercial when they were six?
Kids need time to be kids. If we keep making kids grow up too fast, then we’ll see little kids own businesses and have jobs instead of just having fun and being kids.
Ryan Lina can be reached for comment at [email protected].