Kids Then and Now

  This week, I am partnering up with Adriana and Stephanie to do a project about parenting skills and how they have changed since we were younger. From that topic, we took it a step further and add three sub-categories: different types of parenting skills, kids and social networks, and kids and reality television. I decided to do the main research on the topic of kids and reality television. I wanted to do this section of our project because I have heard first hand about what types of shows kids are watchng now. I coach 10, 11, and 12 year olds and I am always hearing about the new episodes of Jersey Shore or The Real World. It always amazes me because I know that when I was their age I was not watching those types of shows. I was watching Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. And what amazes me even more is that their parents do not seem to mind as much as you would expect them to. Some of the parents even watch the reality shows with them. When I was there age, my mom would get so mad if she ever caught me trying to watch shows on MTV because she saw them as innapropriate, as do most other parents. For this reason, my group and I believe that parents are way more lenient then when we were kids.