This is the way hollyweird has portrayed teenage life. If you can stomach to watch them, watch the shows on the Disney and Family Channel (suppose to be family oriented my butt). I don’t count the ones on MTV and such because they are just shi_t. Every show has teenagers emulating adult scenarios: affairs, overblown drama, confronting adult authority, parents being bff’s to their kids instead of parents, stupid and detached parents, multiple suitors (lack of a better word for whoring around), pregnancies, and a host of other stuff that most adults do not really ever encounter. It is this stupid idea promulgated that we have to expose them to everything to make them safe. BS. Even the so called young adult movies have the same drama.
We were wondering where our then 12-13 year old was getting some of her talking points and that is it. We shut that outlet down but the damage has been hard to reverse because some of the other kids she knows sees the same crap and talk about it.
I am glad my girls are grown, would hate to deal with all that. When they were growing up we barely had TV, just networks and bad reception with a long range antenna. We got satellite when they were in high school and I wasn’t thrilled with what was on for teens even then, I know it is worse now. I pray for my grandkids exposed to all that garbage and the mixed messages.