The Beach Vent: Childhood

I'm feeling nostalgic after having a conversation about PlayStation 1, original Pokemon tv shows, GameBoy Color, and other random things from my childhood. Seems so long ago in a way yet like it was yesterday. Oh how cheesy, I just rhymed. Anyways...I grew up in the 1990's, born in 1989 (last of the eighties aww). Now being 20 years old I can watch old movies that I watched as a kid and see everything I missed lol like those messed up perverted things Disney animators put in when they were bored (Little Mermaid priest has a boner fyi). I can look back and remember all the good tmes when life was way simpler. No internet in the house, no plasma tvs, no cellphones for texting, no DVRs.

Awesome things about being a kid (that make life easier)
1. You don't watch the news or understand it
2. The world is as big as your city
3. You don't have a clue what a period or sex is
4. You don't worry about money

I'm trying to think of how it might be to grow up these days and as I think of all the things on the news and in the media....it sure sounds terrible. I read the things that my 11 year old cousin posts to her Facebook. (Facebook rules state that you must be 13 years old to have a Facebook but let's throw that one out the window) She posted lyrics to the Ke$ha song "Tik Tok" yesterday. I don't know where my aunt is while she listens to music like this. I mean seriously the girl singing talks about brushing her teeth with a "bottle of Jack". Something is wrong there. If I heard that coming from my kid's room I'd take her computer or something. Every kid has an iPod, a laptop, and a tv in there room for some reason. I never had any of those thing and turned out just fine. I only had a boombox and my parent's CD collection to listen to---until I bought my first CD of my very own: N*Sync's No Strings Attached.

I know she loves Miley Cyrus (uhoh) and Taylor Swift---at least Taylor Swift is a nice girl. It makes me sad though, must be so different these days. I've heard a 6 year old use the word "fuck" before. I even had a customer at work get yelled at by her 13 year old son about her not letting him rent a rated-M game. She justified it by telling him that "war and violence isn't ok. My dad was in Vietnam and you will NOT learn that shooting people is ok"...he proceeded to call her a bitch right in front of me. Hello?!

Dear parents, your children are sponges. Please monitor what they're listening to at least HALF of the time. Also, cancel your HBO subscription. Your "baby" boy knows how to use the remote to watch dirty shows.

And then there's the internet, the whole thing. The internet is for porn! Lol not really but yea there's alot of that on here if you click on the wrong link or turn off Safe Search on Google Image Search. Who knew that naked girls had anything to do with my history homework....I didn't.

I think that we all just need to be a bit more careful about what the kids around us are seeing and hearing. All that sex and violence on tv/movies/everything isn't necessary for anyone, especially kids. I value my childhood immensely, and I'd hope that each and every other kid gets a fun, innocent time in their life to just be a kid too. No rush to grow up or become sexual. Just play outside on bikes with the neighbor kids and watch cartoons on Saturday morning. That's what every kid deserves. Don't wanna end up trying to be a kid forever like Michael Jackson, now do we? Noooooope. So here's a few songs that I used to hear on the radio all the time when I was about 6 or 7 years old....

OMC - How Bizarre