Dear Entertainment Industry...

Dear Entertainment Industry .....

What makes our entertainment industry feel the need to use such vulgarity in their products?

The littles came home a month or two ago singing the chorus of a current American Billboard Top 40 song and I was appalled at the words that were innocently falling from Ninja Master P's lips. .

When I was a child, my dad listened to country music, and my mom listened to the oldies. Wow how times have changed. Country music has lost it's twang and somehow found a way to make slashing tires, and murdering husbands popular, while Adult Contemporary music has turned sex into something that needs no commitment and drugs have become the things you swap on a first date instead of phone numbers.

What happened to our core values?  When did we stop protecting our children's innocence and start pushing them into the filth that is pop culture? Be like this football player, act like that musician, look like this super model, talk like this rapper, dress like that famous person.

At home, and in my car, we listen to a local Christian radio station, and we love the cartoons on netflix. I've had to drop what i was doing a few different times to make the littles change what they were watching because Spongebob Squarepants and his friends were using the kind of language that I do not allow my littles to use. Little Miss M knows that it's not ok to call her friends stupid, and she also knows that the cartoons characters that she loves to watch also shouldn't use that word.  Ninja Master P knows that it's not ok to hit anyone, and he also knows that it's not ok for people in movies to hit anyone either.  We don't have cable television because let's be honest, the only channels that are safe for the children anymore are the Dicovery Channel and HGTV.

When we're teaching our children right from wrong, but we let them watch television shows, movies, play video games, or listen to music that tells them the opposite of what we're teaching them, how do we explain that to your child?

If i teach my children that God says Homosexuality is wrong, but then I turn around and agree to  let them watch the movie ParaNorman, that completely undermines the message I am teaching them. When Ninja Master P asks me to play a song called "Talk Dirty To Me" and I intern agree to play it, what message am i teaching him?

I completely understand that parenting is a 100% all hands on deck kind of thing, but what I do not understand is how parents can allow things that are detrimental to their children, into their homes, cars, and schools. I would be so upset if I found Little Miss M "tweaking" in the bathroom, or Ninja Master P dancing all up close and personal with a little girl he was friends with. I don't know many parents that would approve of such behavior, but I do know a lot of parents who absent mindedly allow their children to be entertained by "role models" who preform those acts.

Parents...... please pay attention for just a few more moments. We are all doing this thing together, all being subjected to the same movies, the same music, the same videos on you tube. What I'm suggesting is that we stop allowing the entertainment industry to entertain our children in ways that are harming their growth and disallowing them to be children. I am guilty of putting the littles to bed at 7:30 and then sitting down to watch a rated R movie, or pouring myself a glass of wine and soaking in the bathtub. I'm not the best role model that's absolutely certain, but I am better then a young woman dressed in nude undergarments, swinging on a wrecking ball while licking it, and showing my body off to an entire nation of children who look up to me!

We owe it to the next generations of children to set a standard of what is acceptable and what isn't. Sex only sells because we continue to buy it, Vulgar language in music only sells because we continue to buy it, Violence in Movies and video games sells because we continue to buy it. We have the ability to make innocence a priority for our children and families.

Purity, Honesty, Love, and Faith, Hope, Joy, Charity, ... what would the next generations of young men and women look like if we bought into the idea of those things? Who really cares about how big that diamond ring is that Beyonce got, or how fancy of a vacation Kenye West took Kim K on. I care about the integrity of my children and the people they are going to surround themselves with. I care about the message we are portraying even when we feel like they aren't listening.

I'm making a commitment to be intention in my parenting, and to hold captive the moments that I can teach the littles to go on the straight and narrow path.

If you have a suggestion comment below. I would love to hear your thoughts.

Until next time Y'all....

XOXO