Our Ideal Perfection

This video is amazing and I wish that someone had created this in the 80's when deathly skinny was "in", when girls would kill to look like Cindy Crawford. Our ideal image of perfection is exactly what we see everyday in tv commercials, magazine ads, billboards, and now on the internet. Our children go to school wearing midrif shirts and shorts that show their innocent little bottoms. They have highlights and lowlights in their hair and cell phones, their eyebrows are threaded to perfection and they are dressed to the nines, all of that just to go to grade school. Kids are hiding behind buildings stealing kisses from their boyfriends and doing things that are way too early for them to even know about let alone understand. And we wonder where they get all of these ideas and pressure from! We don't censor our children from watching R rated movies anymore. We don't explain to them what sex is and what the consequences are for doing it. We don't encourage our children enough to do well in school and focus so that they can have a fullfilling life full of joy (at least the majority of us don't). We have reality shows on tv about teens having babies way before they even considered an adult by law. But where does all of this start? Where did we our children start to fall between the cracks of the society of perfection? We strive to look perfect all the time (at least us women do) and yet our lives get so screwed up sometimes. Why are we so concerned about looking perfect all the time, but not concerned about the perfect life? About perfect happiness? I think we're short changing ourselves by only striving to look perfect but not taking it to the next step by achieving the perfect life. That's not to say that you can't have a baby first and then get married (that's sort of how my life went) but I think we all get the chance to start over with our children, by teaching them morals and better values than what we were taught as children. So when your driving your children to the mall and you see a pretty lady on a billboard along the way, be sure to mention that the lady was once a regular teenager with normal teen ideals, and was photoshopped to look like your idol. Or just have them watch this video.