I used to wear them when I was a kid
I loved the jelly bracelets! I thought they were really pretty, the highlighter colours, the glittery ones and even the black ones. Okay, I was a total dag who wore glasses with chunky blue plastic frames, but I wasn't a tart and I didn't care what the bracelets actually meant.
I have to agree with the general sentiment expressing grave concern for the youth of today. Sure, teenagers and other young folk have always disappointed the generation preceding them, but I honestly believe that they are taking things too far. Who do I blame? Unfortunately, "our" generation are largely to blame for our lackadaiscial and woefully neglectful parenting techniques of plonking kids in front of a PlayStation and letting life teach their children its own harsh lessions with little or no guidance at all from their parents and other superiors.
All adults, including parents, non parents, role models, and those who work in the media have a responsibility torwards the impressionable ones. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a prude and I certainly see no harm in sexual relations occuring between two consenting and mature parties. These days, however, 10 and 12 year-olds are performing an act that has lost all meaning, with consent and maturity thrown casually out of the window. They offer their virginity as a rite of passage instead of a gift, getting little or nothing in return. How will such individuals ever learn how to use coition as a symbol of deep and true love?
And how can those drunk girls clad in daggy trakkiedaks or postage stamps be the forgers of the future? Don't get me started on those boys with their three word vocabularies ....
end rant.
