Teen models nowadays appear in magazines, looking like they are selling their bodies, instead of products.
These days, children can easily watch porn through the internet. Girls idolize Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears as they appear in news programs, arrested for DUIs. Teens flip through magazines that feature models (who are often under-age) wearing next to nothing.
In Japan, Junior High students were discovered to be selling sex by sending coded text messages to men. These students include 13-year-old girls. In the States, a 21-year-old woman auctioned her virginity online. While in Canada, police discovered some 16-year-old girls posting ads in Craigslist.com to let people know they provide sexual services.
What is happening to the world? Is the media to blame for this?
In truth, yes, the media is mostly the one to blame.
Today's generation is influenced by the things they see on TV and internet. They watch shows and listen to music about getting wasted, getting high and getting "down" with guys they just met in a bar.
In High Schools, what used to be a competition of beauty and popularity among girls, now becomes a competition of "who-loses-their-Vcard-first" and "whoever-has-sex-with-all-the-guys-in-the-basketball-team-first-is-the-winner".
What can adults do to protect their teenage loved ones from this "sexed-up" culture?
1. Lay down the ground rules at home.
2. Talk to your kids.
3. Teach them strong values.
4. Observe what your kids are watching or listening to.
5. Make them understand that they don't have to be like those people they see in magazines.
There are a lot of things adults can do to keep their kids from turning into a Lindsay Lohan clone. When they they succeed in making their kids understand that media is sometimes deceitful, then they can worry less about those teen models in provocative TV ads.
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What Talented Teens Should Know
What talented teens should know is that there is a world out there waiting to be wowed! But at the same time, it’s difficult to grab the world’s attention and make them listen to you sing or watch you dance or read your poetry. After all, the world is distracted with wars, calamities and famine… But then you think, “all the more reason to share my talent”, right?
And this rings true for almost every successful actor, singer, dancer, writer, musician, etc.
If you have talent, the very first thing you must do is to mold it – compare it to a diamond, which doesn’t really sparkle until it has been cut and polished. Cut out the bad habits that might affect your talent and polish it – take classes, learn all about your craft and become the master of it. Once you feel that you have become stronger in utilizing your talent, you will feel more confident. And confidence is a seductive character that makes the world turn towards you.
But what if you have prepared and found the right opportunity and took your stab at it but failed? Rejected?
Don’t you fret – in this case, take constructive criticism. Ask an honest friend what he or she thinks of your performance/piece of work. This way, you will know what things to avoid next time. Cut and polish, cut and polish. This is all you can do to do better next time.
In time, with lots of perseverance and passion towards your craft, you will be able to knock on the right door and will be welcomed inside with open arms. Also, who knows? You might become the inspiration for success of other talented teens someday.
“Success comes when preparation meets opportunity.”
And this rings true for almost every successful actor, singer, dancer, writer, musician, etc.
If you have talent, the very first thing you must do is to mold it – compare it to a diamond, which doesn’t really sparkle until it has been cut and polished. Cut out the bad habits that might affect your talent and polish it – take classes, learn all about your craft and become the master of it. Once you feel that you have become stronger in utilizing your talent, you will feel more confident. And confidence is a seductive character that makes the world turn towards you.
“Failure is delay, not defeat”
But what if you have prepared and found the right opportunity and took your stab at it but failed? Rejected?
Don’t you fret – in this case, take constructive criticism. Ask an honest friend what he or she thinks of your performance/piece of work. This way, you will know what things to avoid next time. Cut and polish, cut and polish. This is all you can do to do better next time.
In time, with lots of perseverance and passion towards your craft, you will be able to knock on the right door and will be welcomed inside with open arms. Also, who knows? You might become the inspiration for success of other talented teens someday.
Martes, Marso 29, 2011
Teen Models, Adolescence and Plastic Surgery
Adolescence is a time where a person is mostly very idealistic – sometimes to the point of being unrealistic - about himself/herself. And in a world where stick-thin teen models dressed like goddesses are being worshipped by the general adolescent population, the average teenager could hardly be blamed for wanting to change some part of his/her self by getting a plastic surgery.
According to Erik Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development, adolescence is a combination or synthesis of a person’s childhood and an introduction to or anticipation of the role he must play in adulthood. It often results to a role confusion or identity crisis, which then pushes teens to look for their identities in other people.
This makes average teens very easily influenced by movies, TV shows and glossy magazines. Coming up with unrealistic and ridiculous ideas of what they should be or what they should look like only magnifies when they see people their age in these shows and magazines.
Ignoring the fact that these picture-perfect teen models and actresses had to go through hours of
professional make-up before being photographed (not to mention the number of hours of professional photo editing), the average teenage girl who is in the middle of an identity crisis would think that looking exactly like these teen models can make her as someone who fits with society’s standards. But when she looks at herself and realizes that a part of her face or body doesn’t fit with the standards, she often looks for solutions, things to make herself fit in. And what better and permanent quick fix than to get a plastic surgery?
About 244,000 cosmetic surgeries were done on teens from 2000 to 2006 (according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons). The most popular procedures are the rhinoplasty (nose lift) and mammaplasty (breast augmentation).
Most of these surgeries were done on graduation season – which makes us think that today’s graduation gifts are not anymore confined to getting a first car or a plane ticket to Paris.
Teens are often unaware of how dangerous these surgeries can be. Hundreds and hundreds of lives have been lost to cosmetic surgeries caused by medical malpractices and even suicide (due to being psychologically unprepared of the sudden changes in their body).
Needless to say, teens (and parents) who are willing to spend thousands on plastic surgeries are often those who feel insecure about themselves and their children. But then again, when you’re living in a superficial society and surrounded with billboards of impossibly beautiful actresses and teen models ... who wouldn’t feel insecure in one way or another?
So who’s to blame about the obviously damaging and potentially lethal level of insecurity that teens feel nowadays? Is it the media? The society? The home these teens grew up in?... To that, we know no definite answer.
This makes average teens very easily influenced by movies, TV shows and glossy magazines. Coming up with unrealistic and ridiculous ideas of what they should be or what they should look like only magnifies when they see people their age in these shows and magazines.
Ignoring the fact that these picture-perfect teen models and actresses had to go through hours of
professional make-up before being photographed (not to mention the number of hours of professional photo editing), the average teenage girl who is in the middle of an identity crisis would think that looking exactly like these teen models can make her as someone who fits with society’s standards. But when she looks at herself and realizes that a part of her face or body doesn’t fit with the standards, she often looks for solutions, things to make herself fit in. And what better and permanent quick fix than to get a plastic surgery?
About 244,000 cosmetic surgeries were done on teens from 2000 to 2006 (according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons). The most popular procedures are the rhinoplasty (nose lift) and mammaplasty (breast augmentation).
Most of these surgeries were done on graduation season – which makes us think that today’s graduation gifts are not anymore confined to getting a first car or a plane ticket to Paris.
Teens are often unaware of how dangerous these surgeries can be. Hundreds and hundreds of lives have been lost to cosmetic surgeries caused by medical malpractices and even suicide (due to being psychologically unprepared of the sudden changes in their body).
Needless to say, teens (and parents) who are willing to spend thousands on plastic surgeries are often those who feel insecure about themselves and their children. But then again, when you’re living in a superficial society and surrounded with billboards of impossibly beautiful actresses and teen models ... who wouldn’t feel insecure in one way or another?
So who’s to blame about the obviously damaging and potentially lethal level of insecurity that teens feel nowadays? Is it the media? The society? The home these teens grew up in?... To that, we know no definite answer.
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