Driving home yesterday, listening to the radio...which is a rare thing in my car, usually it's a kid going on and on about something I'm suppose to be interested in....a report about Lady Gaga admitting to do drugs in some magazine was the BIG news. The radio personality then went on to drag Lindsey Lohan into the discussion and made some feeble attempt at saying young girls have no good role models and how can we (as parents) expect to raise "good" girls if the likes of Lady Gaga and Lindsey are all over the media? She put out all kinds of facts...how much time little girls spend watching TV, reading magazines, talking about "famous people" w/ friends and family. All I could think was...why are young girls even looking to Lady Gaga and Lindsey Lohan as role models? Since when did famous people become role models?
Madonna was HOT, uber cool -- when I was in high school. With her pointed bras, dark makeup, grinding up on men, killer songs and great concerts. However, she wasn't my role model! She was someone who lived in a world I would never enter. She was Madonna, musically talented and famous. I was Tara Eklund, high school student...still figuring out life. I don't believe even for a second did I think I wanted to become Madonna, be like Madonna or live Madonna's life. If Madonna did drugs...I certainly wasn't going to run out and do drugs. If Madonna slept around I certainly wasn't going to sleep around. Just because Madonna did it, Tara wasn't going to!
I find it hard to believe a young girl is going to take up cocaine simply because Lady Gaga does. Or how about marijuana? Paris Hilton smokes that...does that mean my 18 year old daughter will? Lindsey Lohan...rehab repeater...where does these leave young ladies? I highly doubt Cocaine, Heroine or even marijuana usage will increase because some very famous idiots do them. The usage will increase because lazy parents think they have a simple excuse for not staying on top of their kids. Certainly it"s easier to say..."Little Sally is in rehab for the forth time for addiction to Cocaine because Lady Gaga made it seem so easy and fun"...then it is to say "I should have been more involved with my kids, I should have been THE role model for Little Sally, I should have turned off the radio when driving and listen to Little Sally and NOT Lady Gaga". If more parents would stop looking for "things" to blame with what is going wrong with our youth, more youth would start turning out better!
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