Consuming Kids Reflection
It sort of broke my heart to watch that video, seeing all of the kids dressing up looking at advertising, 4 year olds acting like 17 year olds. It’s horrible. It makes me feel like maybe I missed that wave of advertising, or maybe my parents were just amazing at avoiding it, they read me books, they took me outside. My mom is insanely artistic, so is my grandpa, and I remember being a little kid and my grandpa and my mom worked together to cut apart a giant box and they made it into a castle for me and my sister, they then opened the trunk we had with costumes and handed us some markers so we could decorate the castle ourselves and create our own story. I wish other kids could have that, but now it’s all Dora, marketing, people just trying to make money off of kids, it’s revolting. I pity the children of this century even though I’m part of it, recently I’ve seen kids walking around with makeup on and clothes that even I, a teenager, wouldn’t wear. I want them to bring back doctor Seuss books, imagination, inventing your own games when there’s nothing else to do. Whenever someone gets bored now they just take out their phone, why can’t they go find a clump of grass and mold it into a baseball, take a stick and use it as a bat and play mini-mo baseball with their friends (yes I have done that, it was hilarious)? It pains me to think that this is what our legacy will be like, and if I do end up with kids of my own I plan to raise them like my parents raised me, even if they do hate me for a bit because I turned down their Queen Elsa backpack, boots and Halloween costume.