An editorial-format of the author's perspective of young children in this generation.

I get extremely annoyed when I see my little sister, only age 12, talking to her "boyfriend" on the phone. I hate to see her friends dressed like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. I hate the excessive glitter eye shadow make-up that they all wear. I hate to see elementary boys all "thugged out" and "pimping." I surf the internet and see personal webpages created by these kids with a bunch of web-cam pictures posted. Their …showed first 75 words of 492 total…

…showed last 75 words of 492 total…It is the parents' money that buy their kids' clothing. Why do they allow their kids to purchase such inappropriate [trashy] clothing for their age? If no one realizes the changes that kids are going through quite early on in childhood, we're going to have a bunch of young boys and girls going out to the movies or wherever by themselves, wearing 'skanky' clothing with a face full of glitter--of course with their parent's transportation.