I literally almost broke my laptop and my leg earlier this evening, launching myself across the couch in a desperate frenzy to find the remote and turn off the TV as a commercial with a teen girl sitting on a young “Santa’s” lap MAKING OUT WITH HIM, followed by half naked teen boys bodies, and a bunch more inappropriate images for 7pm during Spongebob ASSAULTED my family! ARE YOU KIDDING ME, NICKELODEON???
I never thought I would be “that mother”…I came from a strict, very religious Catholic home, and sometimes in my youth resented it and certainly as a young adult REBELLED from it. But I refuse to any longer buy into the CRAP that you can’t shelter your kids from everything. Maybe you can’t, BUT I WILLED BE DAMNED [LITERALLY!] IF I DON’T TRY!!!
They are our babies! They are our greatest gift and our most important responsibility! They are the only thing in our everyday, busy lives that, in 50 years, will mean ANYTHING! They are pure and innocent and precious and we let our society RAPE THEM OF THEIR MAGICAL CHILDHOOD with what we allow them to watch and listen to! Have we no sense, no courage, NO SOUL? Collectively, as parents, we need to STAND UP AND FIGHT FOR OUR CHILDREN! It is a constant desensitization of their morality and their souls that starts happening at SUCH an early age that it convolutes any bit morality and values trying to be taught in the home, and actually alienates and marginalizes families who attempt to protect their children from such trash.
I don’t exactly know how to do it, short of next time THROWING my laptop at the TV instead of toppling over it, but I have to stop this madness! There is a verse in the Bible that tells us that we are called to be from the world, but not OF… the world [help me out here my wise Christian friends]. We cannot be SO isolated and different that we make ourselves IRRELEVANT in our world. But don’t be fooled into forfeiting reason and righteousness in fear of what society [and our families, and friends, and co-workers] think. WE MUST BE VIGILENT! And we MUST realize the insanity that is being portrayed, legitimized, and romanticized on programming mistakingly promoted as “FAMILY TV”!!!
I realize it will be a fight…even within my own four walls…but how can I NOT try to protect my precious daughter from the filth that LIES to her everyday that she “has” to use certain language, or wear certain clothes, or dance a certain way, or have a certain kind of relationship with the opposite sex in order to be likable or accepted?!?!? I am not some radical conservative Christian who doesn’t have a grasp on reality…in fact, it is quite the exact opposite. I DO know the reality…all too well, I’m ashamed to say…of believing the LIE, of chasing after that LIE, and of forfeiting everything, including my dignity and everything that is right and good in this world, in pursuit of that corrupted sense of worth and love. So am I going to do EVERYTHING IN MY POWER to teach my daughter that she is better than that…that she does NOT have to buy into that fantasy, that it is NOT the TRUTH of who we are cr eated to be, and that it will NOT fulfill her with the love and acceptance that she craves??? HELL, YES!!!
NICKELODEON…..GET BEHIND ME!!!!!!
