A Penny For Thought

Mood: Thoughtful
Listening to: TV

Why do parents keep their children away from the truth?

There are parents out there who would rather their children think that HIV/AIDS doesn't exsist.They'd rather their children focus on not getting pregnant.So many parents keep their children out of sex ed classes because they are afraid of what they may learn.These parents are only harming their children.

I can remember a time when my best friend and I would talk about sex and the shows we watched on TV the night before and our other friends would look at us as though we had lost our minds.Their parents didn't allow them to watch anything with profanity or a mild sex scene.What I could never understand is why they didn't want their children to watch it with them and then explain what they were watching rather than have their friends who may or may not have their facts straight teach your child everything that they know.

I don't understand the fear that parents have when real life comes into play.I don't understand why parents would want their children to be so ignorant to the world and everything that is going on around them.

My parents hid nothing from me and I am a 20 year old college student working on my degree in Psychology,I don't have a child on my hip,and I don't have a man manipulating me.When you hold my life up next to the now adults who grew up with me but were never in the know I'd say some of them got the short end of the stick.So again I ask:

Why do parents keep their children away from the truth?

Mood: Thoughtful
Listening to: TV

It's funny how things change but it's funny how they stay the same.I can remember thinking that rap and R&B were the only thing worth listening to.I felt like there would never be anything else worth listening to.

Now I'm a little more open my music interest range from rap,R&B,Jazz,Soft Rock, and oldies.I've changed in a major way and I know that there are a lot of other people out there who have noticed the change in themselves.

What I watch on TV has even changed now,I don't only watch music videos trying to learn the latest dance steps and the hottest song out.I'm now more open to what is out there,I'd much rather know about what can harm me and what can help me rather than how to shake my ass.

So you see the more things change the more things stay the same.A lot of things have changed about me but I am still the same person just a little wiser.