I’m not really a rebel, rule breaker, or disappoint-er; I’m not necessarily a goodie two shoes, rule follower, or people please-r either. But for some reason when it comes to blog business I love to push the envelope!!!! I like to get spicy, saucy, mouthy, sassy, and brassy from time to time. Often you’ll find me using %!@$* with a few extra letters to emphasize my point and give you an idea of what I’m really trying to write without getting in bloggy trouble {I just feel cooler writing a %!@$* than writing an “aw shucks” or an “oh stink”…you get it, right?} … Often you might check back later and notice that %!@$* has been replaced with a softer more “appropriate” choice of words… Often it wasn’t because I had a moment of clarity… Usually, it’s because I broke our network’s profanity standards and was told to remove the “bleeped” out word. Ooops {insert dancing around my house feeling like my inner rebel won}!

Seriously though, getting sent to the “Blog Principal Office” got me thinking about profanity, sexual innuendos, and violence in our world of today. The world my little man is growing up in is vastly different than that of my childhood, and my childhood is vastly different than that of my parents and so on and so forth. The world is simply changing and television, radio, cable, kid’s movies, and all other marketing efforts are mostly to blame for the change… that and how we raise our children, but that’s a totally different blog topic.

You can’t listen to your favorite morning show on the way to work in fear Bobby Bones (local KISS morning show host) might start talking about Lunchbox’s (KISS radio personality) sex-capades over the weekend. You can no longer watch Days of Our Lives without fearing someone is going to get called the “B” word….. OH I WANT TO SPELL IT OUT SOOOOO BAD, but I just can’t {stomping foot}!!!! Movies like Shrek aren’t toooo terribly bad, but there are still a TON of inappropriate innuendos that most children don’t catch onto, but adults clearly understand. And just the other day my sister had to reach out to a local network regarding a commercial about hormone replacement where a woman practically groans and moans with how happy she is now that her sex drive is back…try explaining that to a 5 year old. And just the other day my sister’s kids (9 and 5) were talking about a little girl (10) who was making fun of a girl’s messed up ponytail by saying “she looks like she just got finished having sex.” What??? How does a 10 year old know what THAT looks like? I digress.

Yes, the world is changing rapidly whether we want it to or not. We can try to protect our children all day long, but if they don’t hear it from something that was inadvertently seen on television then they could potentially hear it on the television at a friend’s house…or even directly from the mouth of a 10 year old on the school bus! Some may have heard of the George Carlin skit regarding the 7 words you can never say… some of you may not… if not, I encourage you to click on the link. All I can say is “WOW” and at least my profanity is 1,000% lighter that Carlin’s list! I think that makes me a saint!!! Most of these words remain off limits on television, but we’ve definitely evolved in what is acceptable and allowed for our children’s eyes to hear, ears to see, and lips to repeat thus making us look like the world’s worst parent EVER!

So I ask you parents of the world, what do you do to keep profanity, sex, and violence away from your kids eyes, ears, and lips? Should we just educate them from an early age? Shelter them in hopes we don’t have to explain the birds and the bees before the age of 10? What is the $@%*!# answer?????

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