I am confused....
Okay , so I am confused. I was eating dinner with my family, and I asked my son how his day at school went. Nathan told me that he was going through an anti-drug program. Which is good, I informed how "Drug are bad, Mkay" and he should never use them. I asked to see his notes, and the program was very similar to the D.A.R.E (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program I took as a kid.
The focus of the anti-drug classes was to avoid any form of illegal drug, and that the children should not do drugs to be "cool". They also stressed that the popularity of a specific action like smoking, or paint huffing, should not motivate the children to emulate the actions of their peers. Which is all fine and good, until I sat down to watch an episode of 'Chowder' with the kids after dinner. If you are not aware, Chowder is a new cartoon on Cartoon Network, my kids like it so I try to watch what they watch. Some stuff like "High school musical" though, yeah, no fucking way am I sitting through that shit.
Now as I am watching the show, it cuts to a commercial. This commercial features a child who cannot get his magic trick to work. Another child comes in with a "How to Perform Magic" book, he reads the book and then shows the child how to perform the magic trick. The junior charlatan magician then becomes an erudite of the dark arts by reading the book himself. The commercial ended with "Reading...Everybody's doing it!". I could almost hear the wires crackling in Nathan's brain. He looked over at me with a puzzled look and asked "So, are books drugs?".
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!!?! I mean talk about mixed signals. My kids are going to school being told "don't do things because it is popular" , then while watching their T.V shows are being told "Hey kids, do things that are popular!". No wonder my kids look at me with that blank stare half the time , and think I am an idiot. It's because they see shit like this going on!! Why trust what the adults say, when in their eyes we cant even get our own facts straight.
I informed Nathan that books were not drugs, and that the people making this commercial were mentally handicapped. He then told me , that I should be nice to the "commercial people", like he is nice to the kids in the "special class", he proceeded to tell me it was not their fault they are like that and they need a lot of love....... I responded to my son with "Your right Nathan, thanks for the reminder buddy"
At least through all the mixed messages, and confusion of the world, my sons heart is in the right place.
The focus of the anti-drug classes was to avoid any form of illegal drug, and that the children should not do drugs to be "cool". They also stressed that the popularity of a specific action like smoking, or paint huffing, should not motivate the children to emulate the actions of their peers. Which is all fine and good, until I sat down to watch an episode of 'Chowder' with the kids after dinner. If you are not aware, Chowder is a new cartoon on Cartoon Network, my kids like it so I try to watch what they watch. Some stuff like "High school musical" though, yeah, no fucking way am I sitting through that shit.
Now as I am watching the show, it cuts to a commercial. This commercial features a child who cannot get his magic trick to work. Another child comes in with a "How to Perform Magic" book, he reads the book and then shows the child how to perform the magic trick. The junior charlatan magician then becomes an erudite of the dark arts by reading the book himself. The commercial ended with "Reading...Everybody's doing it!". I could almost hear the wires crackling in Nathan's brain. He looked over at me with a puzzled look and asked "So, are books drugs?".
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!!?! I mean talk about mixed signals. My kids are going to school being told "don't do things because it is popular" , then while watching their T.V shows are being told "Hey kids, do things that are popular!". No wonder my kids look at me with that blank stare half the time , and think I am an idiot. It's because they see shit like this going on!! Why trust what the adults say, when in their eyes we cant even get our own facts straight.
I informed Nathan that books were not drugs, and that the people making this commercial were mentally handicapped. He then told me , that I should be nice to the "commercial people", like he is nice to the kids in the "special class", he proceeded to tell me it was not their fault they are like that and they need a lot of love....... I responded to my son with "Your right Nathan, thanks for the reminder buddy"
At least through all the mixed messages, and confusion of the world, my sons heart is in the right place.