The Age Of The Helicopter

We live in an age of babies. It's official. And I HATE it. Today, as I was fundraising for the YAF 9/11 Never Forget Project, I was pulled into the office of my head of school. I was told to take down the posters we had up, that read "Never Forget" with pictures of various attacks on Americans, such as 9/11, the bombing of the Marine barracks, and a picture of Daniel Pearl with a gun to his head. Now, my head of school said that the picture with the gun was inappropriate. Granted, I do go to a school with kids from Pre-K to 12th. Still, this is a perfect opportunity to educate all children on violence, and the violence committed against Americans. Censorship is part of the problem in this country. What we allow is violence in music, video-games, TV and movies. What we don't allow, is showing real life violence and what its consequences are for innocents.

This is a problem that is plaguing this country, these "helicopter" parents. I know I was subject to it once, because I remember 9/11, but I never understood it until about 5th grade. Parents have become too protective, but in all the wrong ways. Parents have dulled the outside world, playgrounds, schools, extracurriculars etc, so much, that kids go inside. Those studies that say we're addicted to the internet? We're addicted to movies and TV? We're violent because of video-games? Good job worried parent. That's probably your fault. You censor useful things, like literature (Harry Potter etc.) and instead let your kids play Call Of Duty, to go blow a Russian's head off.

This is the epidemic that contributes to America's problem. You know how all us conservative complain on government dependency and such? Well, part of that is due to the fact kids aren't allowed to grow up anymore. They can't go break an arm on the playground, because the playground is plasticized and "safe." They can't learn about violence because God forbid we teach about violence in school, we'll just let kids get desensitized at home without any moral or ethical basis for them to understand what they're watching. The point is, again, kids don't grow up anymore. Therefore, when they're older, and their parents don't want to support them anymore, they turn to Big Daddy, a.k.a., the government.

Yes, this may seem pointless, and rambling, and I am sorry. This is my first post in quite some time. I've been on a school retreat, fundraising for 9/11, at church and taking care of some personal matters. No worry, I should be back now.